[8] Despite his family living in the Arturo Soria area of Madrid (in Ciudad Lineal), he studied at the San Agustín School at Padre Damián Street, Chamartín.

[9] He reportedly spent 9 months fulfilling the mandatory military conscription within the COE 13, part of the Special Operations Groups (GOE), located in the San Pedro Base, Colmenar Viejo.

[14] A founding member of Vox, he was included in 2013 as provisional Vice-President of the organisation in the procedure for the registration of the political party in the Ministry of the Interior required for its legalisation.

[17][18] In June 2016 he took part in a propaganda stunt along with other Vox members in Gibraltar, spreading a Spanish flag in the British overseas territory.

In October 2019 Ortega Smith accused Las Trece Rosas (thirteen young female members of the Unified Socialist Youth executed by a Francoist firing squad shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War), of having been "torturers", "murderers" and "rapists" providing no evidence of it.

[27] In October 2022 he was replaced as Secretary general for Ignacio Garriga, as a way of closing inner party crisis after Macarena Olona left the organisation.

[30] As guest at the demonstration of the policial association Jusapol in Barcelona on 29 September 2018, his speech during the event included a diatribe against the European Union.

[33][34] In October 2019, he provoked a controversy by accusing "Las Trece Rosas" (thirteen young women executed by the Franco regime in August 1939) of having been 'torturers', 'murderers' and 'rapists'.

[35] In 2012, he organised demonstrations in front of the Argentinean embassy against the then President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whom he accused of supporting Venezuela and Iran, and called for Argentina's expulsion from the G20.