Pablo Echenique

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

Pablo Echenique Robba^[1] (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician. As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).^[2]

The Most Excellent Pablo Echenique MP
Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018.
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 21 May 2019 – 17 August 2023
Constituency	Zaragoza
Member of the Aragonese Corts
In office 18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017
Constituency	Zaragoza
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015
Constituency	Spain
Personal details
Born	Pablo Echenique Robba (1978-08-28) 28 August 1978 (age 46) Rosario, Argentina
Political party	Podemos
Spouse	María Alejandra Nelo Bazán
Education	Doctorate in Physics
Alma mater	Universidad de Zaragoza
Occupation	Physicist and politician

He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy.^[3] Echenique was elected a member of the Congress of Deputies in the April 2019 Spanish general election along with the left-wing political party Podemos.^[4] Previously, Echenique was one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election, and was a member of the Aragonese Corts between 2015 and 2017.^[5][6][7]

In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant.^[8] In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.^[9] The Supreme Court subsequently annulled this conviction after concluding that he did not make a direct accusation against the plaintiff's brother, but rather expressed a show of solidarity with his political colleague.^[10]