[1] Previously, he has served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016, representing Spain for the Citizens political party.

[9] During his long tenure as Libertad Digital columnist and COPE debater, Girauta expressed strong sympathies for right-wing Zionism (to the point of calling then-president Zapatero an anti-Semite[10]) and lent credibility [11][12] to the now discredited book by Victor Farías [13] dismissing Socialist politician Salvador Allende as a racist and a Social Darwinist, without clarifying that the quotations about genetic determinism in Allende's doctoral dissertation were themselves quotations from other authors (mostly Cesare Lombroso) or the fact that Allende was highly critical of these conclusions in his thesis, which was later published [14] as a rebuttal to Farías' position.

On 5 May 2020 Girauta announced his resignation from Ciudadanos, in disagreement with the party stance to vote in favour of the extension of the State of Alarm during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[18] Soon after, in June 2020, he declared his former colleagues remaining in Cs to be "traitors" and threatened they "were going to suck his dick by taking turns".

[19] Girauta appeared as an independent in the 3rd position of the list presented by far-right Vox to the 2024 elections to the European Parliament.