Where did Inés Arrimadas live from 1999 to 2006?
Inés Arrimadas Inés Arrimadas García ( ; born 3 July 1981 ) is a Spanish lawyer and politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and Spokesperson of Citizens party in the Congress . She was previously the leader of the regional branch of the party in Catalonia . In March 2020 , she was voted party leader . Arrimadas was born and raised in Jerez de la Frontera . Before entering in politics she worked as a consultant . She became a member of the party in 2011 and she first started being the spokesperson of the youth section . She became an MP of the Catalan parliament after the 2012 election . She was the Leader of the Opposition in the Catalan Parliament from 2015 to 2019 . Early life and career . Arrimadas is the youngest of five children born to Rufino Arrimadas García and Inés García López , both of whom came from Salmoral in the Province of Salamanca . She moved to Barcelona in 2008 . Arrimadas studied at the Catholic school Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Jerez de la Frontera . She became interested in Catalonia as a result of being a fan of FC Barcelona which led her to take Catalan lessons from a Catalan classmate while she was in 7th and 8th grade , during which she learnt the club anthem . When she moved to Barcelona , the company she worked for , Daleph , paid her formal Catalan language classes to obtain the C1 level . Arrimadas is fluent in Spanish , Catalan , English , and French . At age 18 , Arrimadas began studying law at Pablo de Olavide University . She also undertook postgraduate studies in international business at IPAG Business School in Nice organised through the Erasmus programme . At 24 , Arrimadas worked for a year and a half in the petrochemical industry . For six years , she worked as a consultant at DAleph in Barcelona , having moved to the city in 2008 . Politics . Parliament of Catalonia . In 2010 , Arrimadas coworker invited her to a Citizens public event at Romea theatre , and she accepted the invitation . Afterwards , she started to attend meetings of the political party . In one of those meetings , Albert Rivera went to teach oratory lessons and thought that she had potential . In 2011 , Rivera asked her to go to the Youth Commission of the Parliament of Catalonia . Rivera also offered her to enter in the partys executive office . Arrimadas was elected as a member of the Parliament of Catalonia in the 2012 Catalan regional election . She became the spokeswoman of Citizens in Catalonia in 2015 , substituting Jordi Cañas , who resigned due to being indicted for alleged tax fraud . That same year , she was selected leader of the party for the Catalan elections which were held on 27 September . Citizens in Catalonia gained 17.9% of the votes , increasing their representation from 9 to 25 seats , obtaining the greatest anti-independence single party representation and became the party Leader of the Opposition of the Catalan parliament . In September 2017 , Arrimadas reported to police a Catalan female who threatened her with gang rape for opposing independence ; the woman received a four-month suspended jail sentence . The party under Arrimadas secured the most seats in the 2017 election under a single party , but the pro-independence parties retained a narrow majority of seats in the Parliament of Catalonia . During the campaign for the elections of Catalonia in 2017 , a hoax was popularized alleging Arrimadas father was a Francoist secret agent . The cousin of his father was the one in a relevant position as a Francoist governor . In 2018 , she denied that the President of Catalonia Lluís Companys was executed by the Spanish State , stating that Companys was executed by a Francoist , fascist regime , not by the Spanish state . Congress of Deputies . In 2019 , Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dissolved the Cortes Generales in response to a budget defeat . In response to the snap election , Arrimadas announced she would run for a seat in the Cortes Generales with senator Lorena Roldán as party spokesperson in the Catalan Parliament and Carlos Carrizosa as leader . In the April 2019 election , Citizens list obtained 12.0% of the vote and 4 seats out of 32 , one of which went to Arrimadas . In the November 2019 election , the partys vote share fell to 6.0% and 2 seats , but Arrimadas nevertheless managed to retain hers and remained a member of the Chamber of Deputies . On 8 March 2020 , Arrimadas was voted leader of Citizens , obtaining 76.9% of the vote in a three-way race . Personal life . On 30 July 2016 , Arrimadas married Xavier Cima , a former Catalan MP and municipal councillor in Ripoll for the pro-independence Democratic Convergence of Catalonia , at an estate in Jerez de la Frontera . Cima then left politics to work for Kreab in Madrid . Their son was born in May 2020 .