Born the year Franco died, the biography of Jorge Buxadé (Barcelona, 1975) is that of a misplaced Falangist, misadjusted to the time in which he lived and nostalgic for a gloriously national-Catholic and lavishly idealized past.
After passing through the OJE, the youth organization with which the Franco regime tried to imitate the scout movement, he joined the Falange de las JONS at the age of 20 while studying law at the Abat Oliba-San Pablo CEU University, a private academy of the Barcelona elites of which he himself later taught, as well as at the UIC, during various courses. "The students feared him, because he was very demanding and not very diplomatic," recalls a classmate.
Before, after graduating in 1999, he had spent four years preparing for the opposition to be a State lawyer, a select civil servant body to which he agreed in 2003.
Destined for the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, he began his Spanish nationalist crusade against the process in 2009, by appealing the first independence referendum, held in Arenys de Munt. After going through the PP (2004-2014), he joined Vox in 2015, an ultra-right party in which he is vice president of political action and Santiago Abascal's right-hand man.
Member of the European Parliament since 2019, he co-leads the European Conservatives and Reformists group, chaired by the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. A member of Opus Dei (the motto of Hispanic Catholic conservatism), decorated with the cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort (granted by the judicial hierarchy) and second lieutenant of the Infantry (for his military service), Jorge Buxadé Villalba belongs to a dynasty of old lineage that has given him access to one of the main Spanish noble corporations.
It cannot be said that his career has not been "coherent", jokes a source who knew him at the beginning of his professional and political career. And sure enough, his is a resume without nuances. In black and white.
