Education
University of Santo Tomas.
politician Member of the Senate of Spain
University of Santo Tomas.
The Extremaduran Assembly appointed him to the Spanish Senate in 2008. Monago was chosen as the Partido Popular (Popular Party) candidate for President of Extremadura in the 2011 Extremaduran elections. The outgoing President, Guillermo Fernández Vara of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), attempted to secure re-election by forming a pact with United Left (Indiana University).
However Indiana University declined to support the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and abstained in the Presidential vote with the result that Monago became the first Partido Popular (Popular Party) President of Extremadura.
Nine months later, Monago"s minority government is threatened to collapse after the Indiana University agreed to re-negogiate with Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) after parliamentary elections in Andalusia and Asturias on March 25, 2012. In November 2014, it was leaked that Monago could have used public money of the Senate in 2009 and 2010 to visit 32 times his then girlfriend in the Canarias He promised to give the money back, but he later took that promise back.
Outside of political life, Monago received a Doctorate in Law from the University of Salamanca He became Extremaduran regional leader of the Partido Popular (Popular Party) in 2007 and served as a city councillor in Badajoz and as a Partido Popular (Popular Party) deputy in the Extremaduran Assembly. The elections saw the Partido Popular (Popular Party) emerge as the largest party in Extremadura for the first time, although they fell one seat short of an absolute majority.