Jorge Verstrynge Rojas (born September 22, 1948) is a Spanish former politician, activist and political scientist, professor in the Complutense University of Madrid.
[2] Close to neofascist movements in his youth and Secretary-General of People's Alliance in the 1980s, he experimented along his political career an ideological switch towards leftist positions.
[3] Born 22 September 1948 in Tangier,[2] he is son of a Spanish mother and a Belgian father, Willy Verstrynge-Thalloen, follower of Léon Degrelle during the Second World War.
[4][1] During his youth in Morocco and Algeria he was also influenced by his stepfather, a French communist called René Mazel.
[1] He moved from France to Spain in order to finish his secondary education and entering the University.