Antonio Gallego Burgos

Burgos comes from a Catalan family and is a native of Barcelona. He studied an economics degree at the University of Barcelona. He was originally a member of the Catalan nationalist Convergència i Unió movement but became active in the People's Party of Catalonia and was a spokesman for the party in the region of El Prat de Llobregat where he was elected as a councilor.^[1] In the 2008 Spanish general election, he was elected to the Congress of Deputies representing the Barcelona constituency and was re-elected in 2011.^[2] In 2015, he stood down from the Congress to contest elections in the Parliament of Catalonia in September but resigned his seat in November of the same year.^[3]

In 2021, he announced on Twitter he had joined the Vox party and was again elected as a deputy to the Catalan Parliament for the Barcelona district. Although a native Catalan speaker himself, Burgos has accused Catalan nationalists of trying to teach children only Catalan in order to foster separation from the region with the rest of Spain.^[4] Burgos is also a member of the Small and Medium Sized Business Association of Catalonia.^[5]