José Manuel López Rodrigo

José Manuel López Rodrigo (born 1966) is a Spanish activist and politician. He has been member of the 10th Assembly of Madrid in the Podemos parliamentary group.

José Manuel López
In May 2015
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
9 June 2015 – 2 April 2019
Personal details
Born (1966-06-08) 8 June 1966
Madrid
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyPodemos
OccupationPolitician, activist

Biography

Born on 8 June 1966 in Madrid,[1] he is a neighbor of Manoteras, in the district of Hortaleza.[2] Active in the associative and Christian grassroot movements, he founded the radio station Radio Enlace.[3] He obtained a degree as Agronomy Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)[4] and a diplomature in Territorial Ordering, Rural Development and Environment at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV).[5]

He worked for Caritas and the Tomillo foundation.[6] During the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, he also served as director of the state-funded Pluralismo y Convivencia Foundation, dependent on the Ministry of Justice, charged with the collaboration with minority religious confessions.[5][4]

He ran as head of the Podemos list in the May 2015 regional election in Madrid;[7] elected member of the regional legislature, he became the spokesperson of the Podemos parliamentary group in the chamber. In December 2016, after the Ramón Espinar's victory in the Podemos regional primaries in Madrid in November 2016, López, considered a member of the errejonista faction, was replaced as spokesperson of the parliamentary group by Lorena Ruiz-Huerta.[8]

In March 2019 he was left out from the list led by Íñigo Errejón to the primary election to choose the electoral list of Más Madrid vis-à-vis the 2019 Madrilenian regional election. He declare "that is the state of things, (these things) are proposals coming from the (party) management, I have come here for four years, and I will keep on working in other areas".[9]

References
  1. "Ilmo. Sr. D. José Manuel López Rodrigo". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  2. Rosa, Isaac (31 March 2015). "En Hortaleza sí sabemos quién es José Manuel López". Hortaleza. Periódico vecinal.
  3. Sánchez, Ray (1 April 2015). "Podemos elige al fundador de Radio Enlace candidato a la Comunidad". El Mundo.
  4. "José Manuel López, el candidato de Podemos Madrid que trabajó para Rodríguez Zapatero". ABC. 10 March 2015.
  5. Velasco, Lourdes (7 May 2015). "José Manuel López, un perfil bajo para una plaza de primera". La Vanguardia.
  6. Calleja, Ángel (18 May 2015). "José Manuel López: de Cáritas al liderazgo de la 'revolución morada' de Podemos en Madrid". 20minutos.es.
  7. Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2015. Publicación candidaturas. Fase proclamación" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (99): 35–77. 28 April 2015. ISSN 1989-4791. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  8. "Podemos cesa a José Manuel López como portavoz en la Asamblea de Madrid". eldiario.es. 23 December 2016.
  9. "La dirección de Más Madrid deja fuera de la lista de Errejón a José Manuel López, candidato de Podemos en 2015". Europa Press. 1 March 2019.
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