Ignacio Garriga Vaz de Conceição

Ignacio Garriga Vaz de Conceição (born 4 February 1987) is a Spanish politician as well as a former dentist and professor. He is known in the Spanish media for being the only Afro-Spaniard elected politician within the far-right Vox party. In October 2022 he became Secretary General of Vox.

Personal life Garriga was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès to a Spanish father named Rafael of maternal Belgian descent and an Equatoguinean mother named Clotilde. His father, Rafael Garriga Kuijpers, comes from a political family where both his father and brother (Ignacio's grandfather and uncle) were both involved in nationalist organizations. Garriga's cousin is Juan Garriga Domenech who has also since become active in Vox.

Garriga is one of five children and grew up speaking Catalan as his first language. He considers himself 100% Spanish. He is married and has one daughter and three sons. He has worked as a professor at the Faculty of Dentistry of the International University of Catalonia.

Garriga joined Vox in 2014. Due to being the only black politician in the party, he is sometimes described as the "Black Catalan of Vox", although Garriga rejects this label, arguing that he is Spanish, and that the name is racist. He was re-elected to the 14th Congress of Deputies in the November 2019 Spanish general election. In 2020, he resigned his seat in the Congress after becoming a representative in the Catalan Parliament and was replaced by Carlos Segura.

Since August 2020, Garriga is the leader of Vox in Catalonia. In October 2022, he was promoted to secretary general of Vox.