Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Bajón (born 1964), often going by the MAR acronym, is a Spanish politician, publicist, media consultant and journalist.
[1] A young journalist writing for the El Norte de Castilla, the "Bachiller" (as Miguel Ángel Rodríguez was sometimes known for his lack of higher studies) met José María Aznar (then bidding for the presidency of the Junta of Castile and León) in the campaign bus before the 1987 Castilian-Leonese regional election.
[4] He has been mentioned as a core member of the so-called "Clan of Valladolid", a circle of people around Aznar, that eventually got to lead the People's Party (PP) from Génova Street, holding top posts during the years of Aznar in La Moncloa as Prime Minister.
[9] In 2019, PP's Isabel Díaz Ayuso hired MAR as consultant vis-à-vis the campaign for the 2019 Madrilenian regional election.
[6] In January 2020, months after the investiture of Díaz Ayuso as regional president, she appointed Miguel Ángel Rodríguez as Chief of Staff,[10] reportedly to the despair of her vice-president Ignacio Aguado, whom Miguel Ángel Rodríguez had previously dubbed as "the disloyal one".