Miguel Urbán

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Miguel Urbán
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
5 March 2015
ConstituencySpain
Personal details
Born26 March 1980 (1980-03-26) (age 44)
activist, librarian

Miguel Urbán Crespo (Spanish pronunciation:

European United Left–Nordic Green Left
political group.

Biography

Born on 26 March 1980 en Madrid,

Billy el Niño in Francoist Spain.[3] He studied history at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), although he did not graduate.[4] Urban worked as librarian in La Marabunta.[5][6]

Urbán during the presentation of Podemos in January 2014

He ran in the 20th place of the Anticapitalist Left-Global Revolt list vis-à-vis the

Anticapitalist Left (IA) list in Madrid to the Congress of Deputies in the 2011 general election.[8]

One of the most prominent figures of IA,[9] he helped to give form along 2013 through conversations with Pablo Iglesias to the main idea of the project that would become Podemos,[10] tensions between the anticapitalistas and the UCM lecturers notwithstanding. On 17 January 2014, he was among the partakers of the event at the Teatro del Barrio [es] in Lavapiés that presented the Mover ficha manifesto,[11] the foundational text of Podemos.

He was included 7th in the Podemos list for the 2014 European Parliament election.[12] Following the renouncements of Carlos Jiménez Villarejo and Teresa Rodríguez to their respective seats,[13] Urbán became an MEP on 5 March 2015. He served as member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE; 2015) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET; 2015–2019), as well as in the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.[14]

He ran as a Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa electoral coalition list candidate for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain,[15] being re-elected to the European Parliament for the 2019–2024 term. He joined the Committee on Development (EVE) and the DROI as well as the Delegation for relations with Mercosur (DMER) and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT).[1]

In February 2020, Urbán left Podemos alongside the platform Anticapitalistas, heir to Anticapitalist Left and hitherto integrated within the party.[16]

On 2 March 2022, he was one of 13 MEPs who voted against the resolution condemning the

Russian invasion of Ukraine and for arming Ukraine.[citation needed][17]

In January 2023, Miguel Urban commented on the ongoing Qatargate scandal, “The Qatargate scandal points to an even deeper Moroccogate affair. The European Parliament should take the same precautionary measures with Morocco as it did with Qatar. Every European Parliament legislative activity in recent years involving Moroccan interests should be retrospectively reviewed to ensure that it has not been influenced by foreign interference.”[18]

Works

  • — (2014). El viejo fascismo y la nueva derecha radical. Barcelona: Sylone.[19]
  • — (2020). La emergencia de Vox. Apuntes para combatir a la extrema derecha española. Barcelona: Sylone.[20]

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b "Miguel Urbán Crespo". www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. 26 March 1980.
  2. eldiario.es
    .
  3. Europa Press
    . 28 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Anticapitalistas se presenta a las elecciones del 20-N". www.cronicapopular.es. Crónica Popular. 17 October 2015. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  5. El Mundo
    .
  6. ^ Orué, Eva (8 February 2015). "Más que vender libros". www.infolibre.es. InfoLibre.
  7. ISSN 0212-033X
    .
  8. ^ Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado Boletín Oficial del Estado, 25 de octubre de 2011.
  9. ^ Rodríguez López 2016, p. 78.
  10. ^ Rodríguez López 2016, p. 81.
  11. ^ Rodríguez López 2016, pp. 78–79.
  12. ISSN 0212-033X
    .
  13. eldiario.es
    . 4 March 2015.
  14. ^ "Miguel Urbán Crespo. 8th parliamentary term". www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. 26 March 1980.
  15. ISSN 0212-033X
    .
  16. ^ "Miguel Urbán abandona Podemos pero mantiene su acta como eurodiputado". La Vanguardia. 13 February 2020.
  17. ^ "We asked 13 MEPs why they voted no to condemn Russia's war in Ukraine". 2 March 2022.
  18. ^ "Moroccogate: Human rights are not for sale". 19 January 2023.
  19. ^ Méndez Rubio 2015–2016, p. 67.
  20. eldiario.es
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 February 2020.
Bibliography
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