Enrique Santiago

Enrique Fernando Santiago Romero (born 1964) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who has been secretary-general of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) since April 2018. He has been a member of the Congress of Deputies for Madrid since 2019.

Biography Born on 18 July 1964 in Madrid, he affiliated to the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in 1980. A member of United Left (IU) since its beginnings as political alliance in 1986, he was the leader of the Communist Youth Union of Spain from 1991 to 1993.

The Central Committee of the PCE elected Santiago as the new Secretary-General of the party on 8 April 2018, replacing José Luis Centella.

He was IU's final choice to lead the party for the 2019 Congress of Deputies election in the constituency of Madrid (IU leader Alberto Garzón opted to stand as candidate in Málaga), integrating 3rd in the list of the Unidas Podemos coalition. He was elected, and became a member of the 13th term of the Lower House.