Inés Arrimadas

Inés Arrimadas García (; born 3 July 1981) is a Spanish lawyer and former politician who served 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. She moved to Barcelona in 2008. 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.

At 24, Arrimadas worked for a year and a half in the petrochemical industry. For six years, she worked as a consultant at D'Aleph in Barcelona, having moved to the city in 2008.

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 Catalonia president 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 party's 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 Álex was born in May 2020. In a September 2021 post on Instagram, Arrimadas announced that she was pregnant with her second child. Their second son Marc was born in March 2022.

Arrimadas divorced Cima in 2023, and is currently in a relationship with Guillermo Díaz Gómez, a former Citizens deputy.