Alberto Garzón

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Garzón and the second or maternal family name is Espinosa.

Alberto Garzón
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IU Secretary for Constitutional Process
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 June 2014
Preceded by	Enrique Santiago
IU Secretary for Global Economic Policy
In office 16 December 2012 – 28 June 2014
Preceded by	José Antonio García Rubio
Succeeded by	José Antonio García Rubio
Personal details
Born	Alberto Garzón Espinosa (1985-10-09) 9 October 1985 Logroño, Spain
Political party	Communist Party of Spain United Left
Alma mater	University of Malaga

Alberto Garzón Espinosa (born 9 October 1985 - Logroño) is a Spanish politician and economist, member of the Communist Party of Spain and United Left since 2003. In the 2011 general election, he was elected as MP with that coalition. He is secretary of constituent process in IU since 2014, and in 2015, he was elected as IU candidate for that year's general election. He was a researcher in University Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla.

Biography

Family origins and youth

He is the son of Alberto Garzón Blanco, a teacher of Geography and History in Malaga, and Isabel Espinosa, a pharmacist from La Rioja. The two met on a summer-trip in Rincón de la Victoria. He spent his first years in Logroño, where he was born. When he was three, the family moved to sevilian town of Marchena, where his father had obtained a job.

In 1994, the family went back to Rincón de la Victoria. He attended the Manuel Laza Palacios elementary school and the Ben Al Jatib secondary school. He liked soccer and attempted, unsuccessfully, to make his way into Sports Club Rincón.

University stage

Alberto Garzón initially signed in Administration and Management of Corporations at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Malaga, but the following year he changed to Economics. When he was 18 years old, he joined United Left The Greens-Andalucía.

In the year 2004, he participated in the foundation of Students for a Critical Economy, an association of which he was president until 2008 and that was in the same line as the Post-autistic economics movement born in France a few years earlier. The purpose of that group was academic and militant, since it denounced "the unique thinking and the intellectual emptiness that reigns in the teaching of economics" at the same time as it participated in social movements such like the Social Forum Another Malaga of 2004. The association would integrate first "Left-wing students", a university association of a left-wing and anticapitalist nature, and later on, in the platform of "Critical students", a union of many progressive groups. Criticist Economy Malaga was presented to the students elections, obtaining a 64% of the votes in 2008.