Santiago Abascal

Santiago Abascal MP
Abascal in 2024
President of Vox
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2014
Vice President	Jorge Buxadé
Preceded by	José Luis González Quirós
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 May 2019
Constituency	Madrid
Director of the Data Protection Agency of the Community of Madrid
In office 4 February 2010 – 28 December 2012
President	Esperanza Aguirre
Preceded by	Antonio Troncoso
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Basque Parliament
In office 4 October 2005 – 6 January 2009
Constituency	Álava
In office 16 January 2004 – 22 February 2005
Constituency	Álava
Member of the General Assembly of Álava
In office 13 June 2003 – 3 February 2005
Constituency	Vitoria
Member of the City Council of Llodio
In office 13 June 1999 – 16 June 2007
Personal details
Born	Santiago Abascal Conde (1976-04-14) 14 April 1976 (age 48) Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
Political party	Vox (since 2014)
Other political affiliations	People's Party (1994–2013)
Spouse(s)	Ana Belén Sánchez Cenador ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2010)​ Lidia Bedman ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	4
Parent	Santiago Abascal Escuza (father)
Alma mater	University of Deusto
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Santiago Abascal Conde (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo aβasˈkal ˈkonde]; born 14 April 1976) is a Spanish politician and since September 2014 the leader of the right-wing political party Vox. Abascal is a member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid since 2019. Before the creation of Vox, Abascal was long a member of the People's Party, served as legislator in the Basque Parliament, founded the Spanish nationalist Foundation for the Defense of the Spanish Nation (Spanish: Fundación para la Defensa de la Nación Española, or DENAES) and exerted the role of director of publicly funded entities of the Community of Madrid.