Eduardo Rubiño

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Rubiño.

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.

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 by	Pablo Gómez Perpinyá
Constituency	Madrid
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 33) Madrid, Spain
Political party	Más Madrid
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
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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. "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. "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. 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. "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. "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. 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. "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. "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