José Antonio Ortega Lara

José Antonio Ortega Lara (born 1958 in Montuenga es, parish of Madrigalejo del Monte, Burgos) is one of the founders of the Spanish political party Vox.

On January 17, 1996 José Antonio Ortega Lara was kidnapped in the garage of his home in Burgos when he was returning from his work in the prison of Logroño.

[3][4] In October 2005 ETA leaders Julian Achurra Egurola ("Pototo") and José Luis Aguirre Lete ("Isuntza") were put on trial for being the organizers of the kidnapping.

On the recommendation of doctors and his family, José Antonio Ortega Lara took early retirement in 1997, one of the options offered to him by the Ministry of the Interior, as a victim of terrorism.

In the municipal elections of 2003, Ortega Lara agreed to be one of the candidates on the list of People's Party (which he had been a member of since 1987) in the campaign for mayor of Burgos, led by Juan Carlos Aparicio, in solidarity with the Basque councilors threatened by ETA.