Inés Arrimadas
Catalan Parliament for the Province of Barcelona | |
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In office 25 November 2012 – 20 May 2019 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
Personal details | |
Born | Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain | 3 July 1981
Political party | Citizens (until 2023) |
Spouse |
Xavier Cima (m. 2016) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Pablo de Olavide University |
Inés Arrimadas García (Spanish:
Arrimadas was born and raised in
Early life and career
Arrimadas is the youngest of five children born to Rufino Arrimadas García and Inés García López, both of whom came from Salmoral in the Province of Salamanca.[2] She moved to Barcelona in 2008.[3]
Arrimadas studied at the Catholic school Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Jerez de la Frontera. She became interested in Catalonia as a result of being a fan of FC Barcelona which led her to take Catalan lessons from a Catalan classmate while she was in 7th and 8th grade, during which she learnt the club anthem.[4] When she moved to Barcelona, the company she worked for, Daleph, paid her formal Catalan language classes to obtain the C1 level.[3] Arrimadas is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, English, and French.[5]
At age 18, Arrimadas began studying
At 24, Arrimadas worked for a year and a half in the petrochemical industry.[7] For six years, she worked as a consultant at D'Aleph in Barcelona, having moved to the city in 2008.[3]
Politics
Parliament of Catalonia
In 2010, Arrimadas' coworker invited her to a Citizens public event at Romea theatre, and she accepted the invitation. Afterwards, she started to attend meetings of the political party. In one of those meetings, Albert Rivera went to teach oratory lessons and thought that she had potential. In 2011, Rivera asked her to go to the Youth Commission of the Parliament of Catalonia. Rivera also offered her to enter in the party's executive office.[3]
Arrimadas was elected as a member of the Parliament of Catalonia in the
The party under Arrimadas secured the most seats in the
In 2018, she denied that the President of Catalonia Lluís Companys was executed by the Spanish State, stating that Companys was executed by a Francoist, fascist regime, not by the Spanish state.[12]
Congress of Deputies
In 2019, Prime Minister
On 8 March 2020, Arrimadas was voted leader of Citizens, obtaining 76.9% of the vote in a three-way race.[1]
Personal life
On 30 July 2016, Arrimadas married Xavier Cima, a former Catalan MP and municipal councillor in Ripoll for the pro-independence Democratic Convergence of Catalonia,[15] at an estate in Jerez de la Frontera.[16] Cima then left politics to work for Kreab in Madrid.[17] Their son Álex was born in May 2020.[18] In a September 2021 post on Instagram, Arrimadas announced that she was pregnant with her second child.[19] Their second son Marc was born in March 2022.
References
- ^ a b Dombey, Daniel (8 March 2020). "Spain's pro-market Ciudadanos pick Inés Arrimadas as leader". Financial Times. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Hernández, Cecilia (4 March 2015). ""Siempre que puedo digo que soy salmantina porque así me siento"". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Julve, Rafa (21 December 2017). "Inés Arrimadas, la Khaleesi naranja". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ a b Del Campo, Eduardo (4 October 2015). "Retrato familiar de Inés Arrimadas desde Jerez: 'La niña ya es imparable'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ "Inés Arrimadas, la primera del Parlament, se queda sin Govern". 21 December 2017.
- ^ Ruiz Valdivia, Antonio (6 July 2015). "17 cosas que no sabías de Inés Arrimadas". HuffPost. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ Pérez Colmé, Jordi (22 September 2015). "La medio tímida". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ^ "Spain Catalonia: Conviction over Inés Arrimadas gang-rape jibe". BBC News. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ABC(in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Esteban, Paloma (21 December 2017). "Arrimadas sí hace historia: Ciudadanos gana las elecciones en Cataluña". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ Caballero, Nacho (16 December 2017). "El bulo sobre el padre de Arrimadas que intenta desmoronar su campaña". El Plural (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Arrimadas denies that the Spanish state executed Catalan president Companys". El Nacional. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ Reid, David (15 February 2019). "Spanish prime minister calls snap election after budget fails to pass". CNBC. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Ellakuría, Iñaki (23 February 2019). "Arrimadas pone rumbo al Congreso para "desalojar a Sánchez y a Torra"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ "Así es Xavier Cima, el marido nacionalista de Inés Arrimadas". El Comercio (in Spanish). 4 April 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "La boda de Inés Arrimadas y Xavier Cima". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 1 August 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ Hernanz, Carlos (30 November 2018). "El marido de Arrimadas ficha por la consultora Kreab y da el salto a Madrid". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ Villarino, Laura (21 May 2020). "Inés Arrimadas da a luz a su primer hijo, Álex". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ Inés Arrimadas [@inesarrimadas] (8 September 2021). "¡Hola a todos! Tenemos algo muy especial que contaros: si todo va bien, el año que viene seremos uno más en la familia 👶🏻 Estamos muy felices y emocionados con la noticia. Nos hace una gran ilusión darle a Álex un hermanito y ya estamos deseando tenerlo en nuestros brazos 😍. Muchas gracias de antemano por vuestro cariño. Yo me encuentro perfectamente y solo puedo reafirmarme en que formar una familia es uno de los mejores regalos que te puede dar la vida 👨👩👦👦" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 May 2022 – via Instagram.
External links
- Media related to Inés Arrimadas at Wikimedia Commons