28 Facts About Pablo Casado

Pablo Casado was a member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid until 4 April 2022, having previously represented Avila between 2011 and 2019.

Pablo Casado's father, Miguel Casado Gonzalez, was a doctor and his mother, Esther Blanco Ruiz, a nursing university professor.

Pablo Casado's family owns an ophthalmologic clinic in his native city.

Pablo Casado studied at the Colegio Castilla, managed by the Marist Brothers, and took the 8th year of the General Basic Education at Douai School in the United Kingdom.

Pablo Casado started his university studies in law at the ICADE in 1999, but he switched to another centre in 2004, enrolling in the CES Cardenal Cisneros, a privately managed centre owned by a foundation of the Community of Madrid and attached to the public Complutense University of Madrid.

Pablo Casado ultimately obtained his degree in law in the CES Cardenal Cisneros in September 2007 after having reportedly passed half of the credits of the 5-year licenciature in four months of that year.

Pablo Casado has a BA in Business Administration and Management and an MA in Administrative Law from the King Juan Carlos University.

The latter degree is a source of significant controversy, as Pablo Casado was found to have obtained it from the now controverted School of Administrative Law of that university without ever attending any class, taking any test, and turning in a final dissertation.

Pablo Casado has said that he earned a postgraduate degree at Harvard University; he had in fact attended a four-day course in 2008 at the Madrid campus of IESE Business School which is allied with Harvard Business School.

Pablo Casado entered politics and joined the People's Party in 2003 when he was still a student.

Pablo Casado presided over the regional branch of the PP's youth organization in the Community of Madrid, known as the New Generations, between 2005 and 2013.

Pablo Casado made an initiation journey to Cuba in early 2007, where he met with Cuban dissidents such as Oswaldo Paya.

Pablo Casado left written testimony of it in pieces published in Libertad Digital and El Mundo.

Between 2009 and 2012, Pablo Casado directed the office of former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

Pablo Casado was included as candidate in the PP list for the constituency of Avila in the November 2011 general election and became a member of the Congress of Deputies.

Pablo Casado was re-elected in the 2015 and 2016 general elections.

Pablo Casado was designated spokesman of the Campaign Committee of the PP for the local and regional elections of May 2015.

On 9 October 2017, Pablo Casado made a comment about the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, alluding that should Puigdemont declare Catalan independence, he could end up like Lluis Companys, who was imprisoned by the Spanish Second Republic.

Pablo Casado introduced himself as a leader intending to recover voters from Citizens and Vox.

Pablo Casado obtained the second most votes out of 6 candidates after Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, who received the most votes among the party members with a margin of 1,500 votes.

Pablo Casado won the voting among the delegates with 1,701 votes versus 1,250 votes to Saenz de Santamaria out of 2,973 votes, being proclaimed as the new president, in what was considered a party swing towards the right, as well as a hardline conservative.

Pablo Casado adopted an active role during the COVID-19 lockdown, refraining from restricting public activities, visiting disparate locations such as Mercamadrid, a hotel, a sheep farm and the headquarters of the association of vehicle producers; he proceeded to criticise the Government of Spain from those platforms.

Ayuso went so far as to accuse Pablo Casado of maneuvering to "destroy" her.

In October 2017, Pablo Casado vouched on a personal basis for a potential reform of the Organic Law of Political Parties, which would include the illegalization of political parties promoting the independence of a part of Spain.

Pablo Casado is critical of the right of abortion, as well as euthanasia.

Pablo Casado considers the "Hispanidad" to be the mankind's greatest feat, only comparable to Romanization.

Pablo Casado said that action for the historical memory of Franco's crimes should be brought about by consensus, and that Spain should concentrate on problems of the present, not the past.

Pablo Casado has considered as good move forward getting used to include praises to the King of Spain in everyday conversations, and deemed acts such as paying the pensions as a figurated way of saying Viva el Rey.