Juan Carlos Girauta

Juan Carlos Girauta
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 11 January 2016
Succeeded by Carolina Punset
Constituency Spain
Personal details
Born 12 March 1961 (1961-03-12) (age 57)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Political party Citizens
Other political
affiliations		 Socialists' Party of Catalonia
People's Party (Spain)
Occupation Politician

Juan Carlos Girauta (born 12 March 1961 in Barcelona), is a Spanish politician, who, from July 2014 until January 2016 served as a Member of the European Parliament, representing Spain for the Citizens political party.[1]

A former PSC member, Girauta later joined the PP[2] and became a prolific contributor to conservative journalism from his Libertad Digital column,[3] before becoming a Citizens member and candidate in the 2014 European Election.[4] During his long tenure as Libertad Digital columnist and COPE debater, Girauta expressed strong sympathies for right-wing Zionism (to the point of calling then-president Zapatero an anti-Semite[5]) and lent credibility [6][7] to the now discredited book by Victor Farías [8] dismissing Socialist politician Salvador Allende as a racist and a Social Darwinist, without clarifying that the quotations about genetic determinism in Allende's doctoral dissertation were themselves quotations from other authors (mostly Cesare Lombroso) or the fact that Allende was highly critical of these conclusions in his thesis, which was later published [9] as a rebuttal to Farías' position. Farías was later sued for this[10] but Girauta never retracted his statements.

Parliamentary service

  • Member, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (2014–2016)
  • Member, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

References

  1. ↑ "Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL". europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Untitled Document". elmundo.es. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ (in Spanish) "Juan Carlos Girauta se explica".
  4. ↑ (in Spanish) abc. "Nart, Girauta y Punset, candidatos de Ciudadanos a las elecciones europeas". ABC.es. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  5. ↑ (in Spanish) Juan Carlos Girauta (21 July 2006). "El presidente y el gobierno, antisemitas".
  6. ↑ (in Spanish) Juan Carlos Girauta (26 May 2005). "¿Quién era realmente Salvador Allende? (I)".
  7. ↑ (in Spanish) Juan Carlos Girauta (3 May 2005). "¿Quién era realmente Salvador Allende? (y II)".
  8. ↑ (in Spanish) Julio Silva Solar (30 January 2007). "Victor Farías y su fobia contra Salvador Allende". Archived from the original on 6 October 2016.
  9. ↑ (in Spanish) "Salvador Allende: Higiene Mental y Delincuencia" (PDF).
  10. ↑ (in Spanish) "Extracts from the suit filed by the Fundación Salvador Allende" (PDF).


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