Eduardo Rubiño

Spanish politician

Eduardo Rubiño
Rubiño in 2023
City councillor of Madrid
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 June 2023
Member of the Senate of Spain
In office
11 July 2019 – 12 July 2021
Succeeded byPablo Gómez Perpinyá
ConstituencyMadrid
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
9 June 2015 – 13 June 2023
Personal details
Born
Eduardo Fernández Rubiño

(1991-09-13) September 13, 1991 (age 32)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyMás Madrid
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
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Eduardo Fernández Rubiño (born 13 September 1991) is a Spanish activist, politician, member of the Assembly of Madrid and former member of the Senate of Spain.

Early life

Rubiño was born on 13 September 1991 in Madrid.[1][2] He is the son of philosopher and academic Carlos Fernández Liria.[3] He has a degree in philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[1][4] He was a member of the Central Delegation of Students (Delegación Central de Estudiantes) at UCM.[1][4] He was an LGBT student and Youthless Future (Juventud Sin Futuro) activist.[1][4] He was one of the leaders of the 15-M anti-austerity movement at UCM.[5][6]

Career

Rubiño worked as a community manager.[1][4] He was responsible for social networking for Podemos from 2014 to 2017.[1][7] He was an online communication advisor to MEP Pablo Iglesias Turrión.[4] He contributed to Iglesias' 2014 book Ganar o Morir: Lecciones Políticas en Juego de Tronos.[8]

Rubiño contested the 2015 regional election as a Podemos candidate in the Community of Madrid and was elected to the Assembly of Madrid.[9][10] Following the schism between Iglesias and Íñigo Errejón, Rubiño joined Errejón's Más Madrid.[6][11] He was re-elected at the 2019 regional election and the 2021 Madrilenian regional election.[12][13]

In July 2019 Rubiño was appointed to the Senate of Spain by the Assembly of Madrid.[14][15] He left this position in July 2021.[16]

Personal life

Rubiño is openly gay.[11] In June 2018 he was subject to homophobic abuse at Lavapiés Metro station when, whilst hugging his boyfriend, someone shouted "fucking fag" (maricón de mierda).[17][18]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Eduardo Rubiño
Election Constituency Party No. Result
2015 regional[9][10] Community of Madrid Podemos 27 Elected
2019 regional[12][13] Community of Madrid Más Madrid 13 Elected
2021 regional Community of Madrid Más Madrid 14 Elected

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Composición del Senado – Fernández Rubiño, Eduardo" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Senate of Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  2. ^ Romo, José Luis (27 June 2015). "El círculo gay de Podemos". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ Barbarroja, Cristina S. (23 June 2016). "Carlos Fernández Liria: "La revolución la hace la oligarquía. Podemos es la resistencia"". Público (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Diputados – Eduardo Fernández Rubiño" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Assembly of Madrid. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. ^ Suárez, Gonzalo (24 September 2015). "El político más influyente del que nunca has oído hablar". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b Alonso, Guillermo (23 May 2019). "Eduardo Rubiño, de Más Madrid: "Hay políticos que tienen relaciones con hombres y prefieren que no se entere nadie"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  7. ^ Moraga, Carmen (4 July 2015). ""Me cuesta tener que compartir espacio con Cifuentes y los culpables de la crisis"". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Eduardo Fernández Rubiño" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Podemos. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Disposiciones y Anuncios del Estado: Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid - Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2015" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish). No. 99. Madrid, Spain: Government of the Community of Madrid. 28 April 2015. p. 45. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Disposiciones y Anuncios del Estado: Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid - Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2015" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish). No. 136. Madrid, Spain: Government of the Community of Madrid. 10 June 2015. p. 226. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. ^ a b Zulet, Íñigo (5 July 2019). "Rubiño, el senador gay de Errejón: "Se puede ser LGTBI y de derechas, pero no pactar con Vox"". El Español (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Disposiciones y Anuncios del Estado: Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid - Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2019" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish). No. 101. Madrid, Spain: Government of the Community of Madrid. 30 April 2019. p. 33. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Disposiciones y Anuncios del Estado: Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid - Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2019" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish). No. 134. Madrid, Spain: Government of the Community of Madrid. 7 June 2019. p. 106. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  14. ^ "Más Madrid propone a Fernández Rubiño como senador por designación autonómica". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. EFE. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  15. ^ Medialdea, Sara. "Eduardo Fernández-Rubiño será el senador autonómico por Más Madrid". ABC (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  16. ^ "La Asamblea elige a sus senadores por designación autonómica: cinco del PP, uno de Más Madrid y otro de PSOE". Europa Press. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  17. ^ "El diputado Eduardo Rubiño (Podemos), insultado en el Metro de Madrid: "Maricón de mierda"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Europa Press. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  18. ^ "Madrid. el diputado eduardo rubiño sufre una agresión homófoba en el metro de madrid". EcoDiario / El Economista (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Servimedia. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2019.

External links

  • Eduardo Rubiño on Twitter
  • Eduardo Rubiño on Instagram