Jaime de Berenguer | |
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Member of the Assembly of Madrid | |
Assumed office 2011 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Jaime María de Berenguer de Santiago 25 October 1967 |
Political party | Vox (2016-) Union, Progress and Democracy (2011-2016) |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Jaime María de Berenguer de Santiago (born 25 October 1967) is a Spanish politician and nobleman who has been a member of the Assembly of Madrid since 2011. He is a member of the House of Silva and holds the title of the 21st Count of Cifuentes.[1]
de Berenguer was born in Madrid to a Spanish noble family and is a descendant of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona. He is the son of Juan de Berenguer y Casani, 5th Count of Cifuentes.
He graduated with a PhD in psychology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) in 1998 with a published thesis Attitudes and environmental beliefs: a psychosocial explanation of ecological behavior. He subsequently worked as a professor at the UAM.[2]
He first entered politics in 2011 in which he was elected as a city councilor in Madrid on the list for the Union, Progress and Democracy party. In 2016, he switched his support to the nationalist Vox party and won a seat in the Assembly of Madrid elections of 2019.[3]
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