Juan Branco

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Juan Branco (Spanish: [xwam ˈbɾaŋko], French: [ʒɥɑ̃ bʁɑ̃ko]; born 1989) is a French and Spanish lawyer, political activist, and writer. Branco was born in Spain and grew up in Paris. While a student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), he stood for the Green Party in local elections. He then worked on the 2012 presidential election campaign of Socialist Party's candidate, François Hollande. After that, he completed his master's degrees followed by his PhD in 2014, and became a legal advisor of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange between 2015 and 2019. During this period, he also stood unsuccessfully in the 2017 French legislative election as a candidate for the left wing populist party La France Insoumise. In 2018 he became involved with the Yellow vests movement, some of whose members he defended in court pro bono. Branco has published numerous books, the most successful of which is Crépuscule (2019). Selling more than 150,000 copies within a year of publication, the work...

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