Ignacio Prendes

Ignacio Prendes
Fourth Vice President of the Congress of Deputies
In office
21 May 2019 – 3 December 2019
PresidentMeritxell Batet
Preceded byGloria Elizo
Succeeded byIgnacio Gil
First Vice President of the Congress of Deputies
In office
19 July 2016 – 20 May 2019
PresidentAna Pastor Julián
Preceded byCelia Villalobos
Succeeded byGloria Elizo
Member of Congress of Deputies
Assumed office
13 January 2016
ConstituencyAsturias
Member of Asturian General Council
In office
26 March 2012 – 13 January 2016
ConstituencyCentral
Personal details
Born
José Ignacio Prendes Prendes

(1965-02-22) 22 February 1965 (age 59)
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Political partyC's (2015–)
Other political
affiliations
UPyD (2007–2015)
OccupationLawyer

José Ignacio Prendes Prendes (born 22 February 1965 in Gijón) is a Spanish politician and member of Congress of the Deputies with the Citizens-Party of the Citizenry party (C's). Since 21 May 2019, he has been the Fourth Vice President of the Congress of Deputies.

He studied law at Oviedo University.[1] In 1998, he obtained a master's degree in law and taxation in Madrid, after which he started his own practice in Gijón, focussing on real estate law.

For a time he was a member of the Citizens-Party of the Citizenry political party. Later, he joined Plataforma Pro which was created to offer an alternative to the established parties. Out of Plataforma Pro emerged the new UPyD party, of which he has been a member since its foundation. He is currently a member of the Direction Council of the party, as coordinator of Institutional Action. In the 2012 Asturian election he headed the UPyD candidate list for the central Asturias constituency. His party received 3.75% of the vote in Asturias as a whole and 4.3% of the vote in his constituency.

On 2015, he came back to C's after being expelled from UPyD.[2] He was elected firstly as member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias in the Regional election and later as Deputy in the General election.

  1. ^ "El semillero gijonés no descansa". La Nueva España (in Spanish). 25 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Prendes será el candidato de Ciudadanos tras renunciar a su escaño por UPyD". La Nueva España (in Spanish). 10 April 2015.