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Leopoldo López Gil
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Spain
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born1944
Caracas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Spanish (since 2015)
Political party Spanish
People's Party
 EU
European People's Party

Leopoldo López Gil (Caracas, 1944)[3] is a Spanish-Venezuelan politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[4]

He is the father of Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo López. He was granted Spanish citizenship by the Government of Mariano Rajoy in December 2015.[5][6] He ran 12th in the People's Party (PP) list for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain in replacement of Ángel Garrido, who renounced to be a PP candidate and went to support Citizens.[7]

López Gil has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the parliament's delegations to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ Sánchez, Felipe (16 February 2018). "Leopoldo López Gil: "El error de la oposición ha sido creer en la buena fe del chavismo"". El País.
  4. ^ "Lista de los 54 eurodiputados elegidos este domingo en España". La Vanguardia. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  5. ^ "El Gobierno confirma la entrada de Lilian Tintori y su hija menor en España". El Confidencial. 4 June 2016.
  6. ^ Ayllón, Luis (24 May 2016). "La nacionalidad española a familiares de Leopoldo López, una medida más simbólica que práctica". ABC.
  7. ^ Junquera, Natalia (26 April 2019). "El PP ficha al padre del opositor venezolano Leopoldo López para sus listas europeas". El País.
  8. ^ Leopoldo López Gil European Parliament.


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