María Ruiz Solás

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the second or maternal family name is Solás.
María Ruiz Solás
MP
Ruiz Solas in 2023
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 May 2019
Councilor of the City council of Villaviciosa de Odón
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2015
Personal details
Born
María de la Cabeza Ruiz Solás

(1970-09-13) 13 September 1970 (age 54)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyVox
Alma materUniversidad CEU San Pablo

María de la Cabeza Ruiz Solás (born 9 September, 1970 in Madrid) is a Spanish journalist, businesswoman and politician who is a member of the Congress of Deputies for Vox.

Biography

Solás was born in Madrid to a family of Andalusian origin and has three brothers. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a housewife. After leaving school, she studied journalism at the Universidad CEU San Pablo before working for a local newspaper. She later founded a publishing company with her husband focusing on publishing and distributing content in the auto sector and edited a local information magazine in her home municipality of Villaviciosa de Odón.[1][2]

Political career

Solás has claimed that she was originally a supporter of the People's Party (PP) but joined Vox in 2015 due to being disappointed with the PP in government. During the 2015 Spanish local elections, she was elected as a councilor for Vox in Villaviciosa de Odón and unsuccessfully stood as Vox's candidate for mayor in the municipality in 2019.[3]

During the April 2019 Spanish general election, she was elected to the Congress of Deputies for Vox representing the Madrid constituency. She was elected again during the November elections of the same year. In Congress, she sits on the Committees for Tourism and Labor, Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ "María Ruiz Solás, the deputy of Vox who drives Pablo Iglesias out of his boxes". 23 May 2020. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  2. ^ "María Ruiz (VOX): «Juan Godino should never have accepted the Department of Urbanism»". Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  3. ^ "Maria Ruiz Solas". Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  4. ^ "Lawyers, soldiers, ex-PP... These are the deputies that Vox places in Congress". 28 April 2019. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  5. ^ "Maria Ruiz (Madrid)". Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  6. ^ "Ruiz Solás, María de la Cabeza". Retrieved 2022-05-17.