Carlos Ortas

For the Venezuelan dancer, see Carlos Orta.

Carlos Ortas Martín (born 1979)[1] is a Spanish former politician. As a member of the Citizens party, he sat in the Cortes of Aragon from 2019 to 2023. He led the party in the 2023 Aragonese regional election, in which they lost all of their 12 seats.

Biography

Born in Huesca in Aragon,[2] Ortas qualified as an industrial engineer from the University of Zaragoza. As of 2023, he is married and has one son.[3]

In the 2019 Aragonese regional election, Ortas was third on the list of Citizens (Cs) in the Huesca constituency.[4] The party took three of the 18 seats in the constituency.[5]

Ortas was a critic of Citizens' national leader, Inés Arrimadas, and was a co-founder of the dissident platform SomosCs.[1] In August 2022, he was removed from an institutional position inside the regional branch of the party by leader Daniel Pérez Calvo, via WhatsApp.[6] The following March, he was named president of the branch and Pérez Calvo as lead candidate in the 2023 Zaragoza City Council election.[6]

Ortas's Citizens contested the 2023 Aragonese regional election on a joint list with Tú Aragón, a splinter from the similarly troubled Aragonese Party (PAR); RTVE wrote that Ortas had the aim of preventing his party from a wipeout in the Cortes of Aragon, which polling was indicating.[1] He ran this time in the Zaragoza constituency.[7] The party fell from 16.7% to 1.3% of the vote, losing 103,000 votes compared to four years prior and losing all its 12 deputies.[8]

In November 2023, Ortas was named as director of the Walqa Technological Park by the Government of Jorge Azcón.[3]

Ortas received the ADEA Award for Best Executive in the province of Huesca. The award was presented by the Association of Executives and Managers of Aragon (ADEA) during its annual convention in November 2024.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Quién es quién en las elecciones de Aragón: un socialista crítico con Sánchez, un alcalde y una única mujer" [Who's who in the Aragonese elections: a Socialist critic of Sánchez, a mayor and the only woman] (in Spanish). RTVE. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  2. ^ Santos, Ibán (27 May 2019). "Las nuevas Cortes de Aragón: estos son los nuevos diputados" [The new Cortes of Aragon: these are the new deputies]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Carlos Ortas, nuevo director del Parque Tecnológico Walqa" [Carlos Ortas, new director of the Walqa Technological Park] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 10 November 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  4. ^ Laiglesia, Luis (8 May 2019). "Bernués y Cadena prefieren esperar a los resultados del 26M para hablar de pactos" [Bernués and Cadena prefer to wait for the results of the 26 May elections before speaking about pacts] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  5. ^ "Estos son los diputados de la provincia a las Cortes de Aragón" [These are the deputies from the province for the Cortes of Aragon] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  6. ^ a b Martín, Ignacio (22 March 2023). "Cs designa a Ortas presidente y a Pérez Calvo candidato a Zaragoza" [Cs designate Ortas as president and Pérez Calvo as candidate for Zaragoza]. El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Estos son los candidatos que presenta Ciudadanos - Tú Aragón a las elecciones del 28-M" [These are the candidates that Citizens - Tú Aragón are presenting for the 28 May elections]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 26 April 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Ciudadanos pierde más de 100.000 votos y se queda sin representación en las Cortes" [Citizens lose more than 100,000 votes and end up without representation in the Cortes]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 29 May 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  9. ^ AltoAragón, Diario del (2024-11-19). "Sara Comenge y Carlos Ortas, reconocidos en los premios Adea". diariodelaltoaragon.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-31.
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