Pío García-Escudero

{{Short description|Spanish architect and politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = The Count of Badarán

| honorific-suffix = OC OSP MS

| honorific_prefix = The Most Excellent

| image = (Pío García-Escudero) AACU4015 2018 (41536086810) (cropped).jpg

| office = Second Vice President of the Senate

| president = Manuel Cruz Rodríguez
Pilar Llop

| term_start = 21 May 2019

| term_end =

| predecessor = Joan Lerma

| successor =

| office1 = 59th President of the Senate

| monarch1 = Juan Carlos I
Felipe VI

| vicepresident1 = Juan José Lucas
Pedro Sanz
Yolanda Vicente González
Joan Lerma

| term_start1 = 13 December 2011

| term_end1 = 20 May 2019

| predecessor1 = Javier Rojo

| successor1 = Manuel Cruz Rodríguez

| office2 = Member of the Senate

| constituency2 = Madrid

| term_start2 = 2 April 2004

| term_end2 =

| birth_name = Pío García-Escudero Márquez

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|10|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = People's Party

| spouse =

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| occupation = Politician

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Pío García-Escudero Márquez, 4th Count of Badarán (born 28 October 1952) is a Spanish architect and politician who served as the 59th President of the Senate of Spain from 2011 to 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://www.senado.es/web/composicionorganizacion/organossenado/presidente/biografia/index.html|title=Presidente del Senado. Biografía|language=Spanish|accessdate=14 February 2015}} Since 21 May 2019, Escudero has served as the Second Vice President of the Senate.

Early life

Born in 1952 in Madrid where he was raised, he graduated from Technical University of Madrid and as an architect from Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.

Political career

García-Escudero Márquez was a senator from 9 April 1996 to 2 February 1999, and again from 13 April 2004 to 26 September 2011 as a member of the People's Party.

Personal

García-Escudero Marquez was married on 15 June 1982 to María del Carmen Ramos Pérez. The couple has two children:

  • Pío García-Escudero Ramos (b. 1984)
  • Miguel García-Escudero Ramos (b. 1987)

He is involved in the Bárcenas affair corruption scandal and appeared before the court as a witness in Gürtel case trial on 26 July 2017.[https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/01/31/actualidad/1359634766_210374.html El presidente del Senado reconoce un pago anotado por Bárcenas] {{in lang|es}}

Honours

=Foreign honours=

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