Teodoro García Egea (born 27 January 1985) is a Spanish politician. He was the secretary-general of the People's Party, second to President Pablo Casado in party hierarchy. He has been a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th and

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terms of the

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representing

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Early life and education

Teodoro or "Teo" (as he is often hypocoristically known by) García Egea was born on 27 January 1985 in Cieza,

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. While still pursuing his graduate studies as a Telecommunications Engineer, he was elected municipal councillor in Cieza, serving in that capacity from 2007 to 2009. A participant in the 2008 ''Mollar Chafá''

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pit spitting competition in his native city, he won and was proclaimed the World Champion in the speciality, reaching 16.84 m. After completing his degree in

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at the

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(UPCT), he began his postgraduate studies, initially at the

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. García Egea earned a PhD in

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at the UPCT, with the reading of a dissertation titled ''Análisis, decodificación y clasificación de la señal EEG en entornos tridimensionales'' in December 2015.

Political career

García Egea ranked 9th on the People's Party (PP) list for the constituency of

vis-à-vis in the November 2011 Congress of Deputies election. In a crushing PP victory in the staunchly conservative constituency that delivered a 64.22% of valid votes to the party, the PP obtained 8 seats out of a total of 10. With 1 seat in the PP list short of becoming MP, García Egea nonetheless became a legislator of the 10th Lower House on 19 January 2012, covering the vacant seat left by , who had been appointed Secretary of State for Trade. García Egea was re-elected to his seat in the Congress of Deputies in the 2015 and 2016 general elections, in which García Egea ran 1st in the PP list for Murcia. Following the announcement of Mariano Rajoy's resignation as President of the PP in June 2018, he worked for Pablo Casado, a prospective candidate to become leader of the party, assisting him as campaign director. Casado was elected President of the PP among the party delegates in a second round of voting, and soon after, Casado appointed García Egea as the Secretary-General of the party. He renovated his seat for the 13th term of the Congress of Deputies in the 2019 general election.

Personal life

In March 2012, García Egea married María José Escasaín, a chemical engineer, whom he had been dating 5 years.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia Egea, Teodoro Living people 1985 births People's Party (Spain) politicians Members of the 10th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 11th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 13th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 14th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Spanish municipal councillors People from Cieza, Murcia