Ignacio Higuero
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Ignacio Higuero de Juan (born 31 January 1968)[1] is a Spanish former politician who was the Minister of Forest Management and the Rural World in the Regional Government of Extremadura from 2023 to 2025, when he resigned over a false qualification on his curriculum vitae.[2] He was appointed as a member of Vox and quit the party in July 2024.
Higuero was born in Madrid and raised in Cáceres in Extremadura.[1] From 1993 to 1994 he was a professional hunter in Zimbabwe.[3] He began working in Spain's oldest hunting business, Sierra de San Pedro; from 2009 to 2023 he was president of the Asociación de Profesionales de Caza de Extremadura (Association of Hunting Professionals of Extremadura).[4]
In the 2023 Extremaduran regional election, the People's Party won a plurality of seats and its leader María Guardiola formed a coalition government with Vox. Vox held one office, the Ministry of Forest Management and the Rural World, which was led by Camino Limia. On 6 October 2023, she resigned, and the following day Higuero was removed as Director General of Forest Management, Hunting and Fishing and appointed minister.[5] In October 2023, it emerged that he had been sanctioned and fined in 2014 and 2015 over non-compliance with the regional hunting laws, of which he was now in charge.[6]
In July 2024, Vox's national leader Santiago Abascal severed all regional coalition governments with the PP, due to a dispute over the housing of unaccompanied migrant minors. Higuero quit Vox and remained in his ministry.[3] He resigned on 1 August 2025 due to a revelation of job fraud; he had claimed on his curriculum vitae to have a marketing degree from Universidad CEU San Pablo in 1993, but that institution did not offer such a course then.[2]
References
- 1 2 Vinagre, Celestino J. (31 January 2024). "Ignacio Higuero: «El regadío de Tierra de Barros no depende de nosotros sino de Europa»" [Ignacio Higuero: "The irrigation of the Tierra de Barros doesn't depend on us but on Europe"]. Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- 1 2 "Dimite el consejero de la Junta de Extremadura Ignacio Higuero por falsear su currículum" [Government of Extremadura minister Ignacio Higuero resigns due to falsifying his CV] (in Spanish). RTVE. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- 1 2 Entonado Arias, Rocío (12 July 2024). "El único consejero de Vox en Extremadura no dimite: "Entiendo el giro, pero no lo comparto. Yo soy una persona honrada"" [Vox's only minister in Extremadura won't resign: "I understand the u-turn, but I don't share it. I am an honourable person"]. El Periódico Extremadura (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ↑ Méndez, Sara (12 July 2024). "Quién es Ignacio Higuero, el consejero de Vox en Extremadura que deja el partido y se va al PP con María Guardiola" [Who is Ignacio Higuero, the Vox minister in Extremadura who is leaving the party and going to María Guardiola's PP]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ↑ "Publicado en el DOE el nombramiento de Ignacio Higuero como consejero de Gestión Forestal y Mundo Rural" [Appointment of Ignacio Higuero as minister of Forest Management and Rural World published in Official Gazette of Extremadura]. El Periódico Extremadura (in Spanish). Europa Press. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ↑ Vigario, David (10 October 2023). "El nuevo consejero de Vox en Extremadura fue sancionado dos veces por incumplir la Ley de Caza" [Vox's new minister in Extremadura was sanctioned twice for non-compliance with Hunting Law]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2025.