Toni Cantó

Antonio Cantó García del Moral (born 14 January 1965) is a Spanish actor and former politician who was Citizens deputy and spokesman, representing Valencia Province in the Congress of Deputies from 2011 to April 2015 and again from December 2015 until 2021.

Biography Early life Antonio Cantó García del Moral was born on 14 January 1965 in Valencia, son to a physician. released in 1986. Some of his credits included performances in films such as Pilar Miró's Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996), Jesús Mora's Once and for All (1996), and Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999).

Cantó came third on the first season of Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta in December 2020.

On 8 September 2022 Cantó assumed the position of creative director at the television channel 7NN, which stopped broadcasting on 31 March 2023 due to insufficient income to cover operating expenses.

Spell in politics Cantó joined Ciudadanos in 2006 and ran as a candidate for the local list Vecinos por Torrelodones in the 2007 municipal elections.

In 2011, Cantó was selected to head the UPyD list in Valencia Province for the 2011 general election, where he gained a seat. In 2014, he was selected as UPyD candidate for President of the Valencian Government in the 2015 regional elections. He resigned his seat in Congress in April 2015 and announced that he would also not be standing for president in the Valencian regional elections. In his resignation announcement he stated that he would consider whether to remain in UPyD after the party's congress in June 2015. Following poor local and regional election results, Díez resigned and Cantó supported Irene Lozano in the subsequent leadership election on 12 July 2015, in which Lozano lost to Andrés Herzog. 4 days later, Cantó announced that he would sit as an independent and would seek the number two position on the Citizens' list for the 2015 Spanish general election. He was chosen as the second candidate and was elected to Congress in the 2015 election.

He ran as Cs' candidate for the 2019 Valencian regional election, and was elected to the Corts Valencianes, becoming the leader of his parliamentary group and one of the most conspicuous legislators.

Following the announcement of the motion of no confidence in the PP regional government in Murcia in March 2021 (and ensuing crisis in Cs as party regional legislators who had initially backed the motion crossed the floor within hours to accept government posts offered by the PP), PP's Secretary General Teodoro García Egea contacted Cantó. Cs' leader Inés Arrimadas proposed including Cantó in the executive board of Cs, yet Cantó announced he was leaving the party and his seat on 15 March 2021.

9 days later, on 24 March 2021, PP announced Cantó would be on their list for the 2021 Madrilenian regional election. He claimed he had registered in the Madrid region "some days ago".

In 2021, Cantó joined the Madrid-based ISSEP, a far-right educational centre founded in Spain by Marion Maréchal, to lecture on speaking skills.