Javier Ortega Smith

Javier Ortega Smith
Ortega Smith in 2018
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Assumed office
21 May 2019
ConstituencyMadrid
Madrid city councillor
Assumed office
15 June 2019
Personal details
Born
Francisco Javier Ortega Smith-Molina

(1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 (age 56)
Madrid, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish, Argentine
Political partyVox (since 2013)
OccupationLawyer, politician

Francisco Javier Ortega Smith-Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [zmið.moˈlina]; born 28 August 1968) is a Spanish-Argentine lawyer and politician.[1] Secretary General of Vox, the second most prominent position in the Spanish party after its president Santiago Abascal, he was a member of both the Congress of Deputies and the Madrid City Council since 2019.

On 10 March 2020, during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Ortega Smith had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.[2] Ortega Smith, who had travelled to Lombardy in February,[3]

References

    • "Ortega Smith, sobre el falangista Primo de Rivera: "Es un magnífico patriota, un gran ideólogo político"". InfoLibre. 16 May 2019.
    • "Ortega Smith, sobre las Trece Rosas: "Nunca voy a pedir perdón por algo que es verdad"". 20minutos.es. 8 October 2019.
    • Intxausti, Aurora (4 November 2019). "Ortega Smith acusa a las 13 Rosas de Madrid de "torturar, asesinar y violar"". El País.
    • "La polémica celebración de La Toma de Granada vuelve con la prohibición de "símbolos extremistas"". eldiario.es. 1 January 2020.
    • "Ortega Smith (Vox) acusa falsamente a laSexta de organizar la bronca con una víctima de violencia machista". La Sexta. 26 November 2019.
  1. "Javier Ortega Smith da positivo por coronavirus". El Mundo. 2020-03-10.
  2. Esteban, Paloma (11 March 2020). "De Milán a Vitoria: el viaje de Ortega Smith por los principales focos del coronavirus". El Confidencial.