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Gorka Urtaran
Gorka Urtaran Agirre (born 21 December 1973) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He was elected mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2015. Biography Urtaran was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. His mother, María Jesús Agirre, was a Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) politician who was deputy mayor of the city during the mandate of José Ángel Cuerda and a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1995 to 1997. He graduated in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country, where he studied at its Leioa campus and wrote a postgraduate thesis on migration. After being a civil servant in the Vitoria-Gasteiz Department of Social Intervention, Urtaran served in his province's Juntas Generales from 2007 to 2011. In December 2010, he was confirmed as the EAJ-PNV candidate for mayor in the next year's elections. His party came second to the People's Party (PP), whose leader Javier Maroto was invested as mayor. Four years later, the EAJ-PNV lost a seat and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Gorka Urtaran Agirre (born 21 December 1973) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He served as mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz from 2015 to 2023. Biography Urtaran was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. His mother, María Jesús Agirre, was a Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) politician who was deputy mayor of the city during the mandate of José Ángel Cuerda and a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1995 to 1997. He graduated in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country, where he studied at its Leioa campus and wrote a postgraduate thesis on migration. After being a civil servant in the Vitoria-Gasteiz Department of Social Intervention, Urtaran served in his province's Juntas Generales from 2007 to 2011. In December 2010, he was confirmed as the EAJ-PNV candidate for mayor in the next year's elections. His party came second to the People's Party (PP), whose leader Javier Maroto was invested as mayor. Four years later, the EAJ-PNV lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa Press (news Agency)
Europa Press is a Spanish news agency founded in 1953. It broadcasts news 24 hours a day, publishing 3,000 articles on average per day. It serves content to almost 2,000 clients, including the main Spanish media: radios; newspapers; televisions and national, autonomic and local digital media. Also, among its clients there are the High Statal Institutions, all Public Ministries, Autonomous Governments, Public Halls, Public Deputations and the rest of Public Administrations at all levels, political parties, business organizations, labor unions and the main companies and foundations. These informations -with both general and specialized character and served in text and audiovisual format- are one of the main information sources for mass media and press offices. Europa Press has headquarters in every Spanish Autonomous Community and correspondents in each provincial capital. This allows the news agency to offer a very concrete informative product from local and autonomic issues, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Councillors In The Basque Country (autonomous Community)
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University Of The Basque Country Alumni
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People From Vitoria-Gasteiz
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Living People
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1973 Births
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El Plural
elplural.com is a spanish language news site which has been publishing since 19 September 2005. It defines itself as a combination of information with opinion which tries to offer its readers general interest news. History elplural.com was born as a project by the Catalan journalist Enric Sopena, whose previous experience came from audiovisual or written media such as ''La Vanguardia'' and TVE. Despite its geographical origin in Catalonia, ''El Plural'' deals with national and international topics, and over time a fixed section has focused on Andalusia, together with other regional sections. From 2010, Enric Sopena became a shareholder of the newspaper's publishing company. Until then the ownership of this medium was in the hands of a company linked to Lavinia TV. On 22 March 2017, the General Shareholders' Meeting of elplural.com accepted the retirement request of Enric Sopena as director of the newspaper, becoming 'President 'Emeritus', writing an opinion column titled 'Cabos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party Of The Basque Country–Basque Country Left
The Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left ( eu, Euskadiko Alderdi Sozialista – Euskadiko Ezkerra, es, Partido Socialista de Euskadi – Euskadiko Ezkerra, PSE-EE) is a Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in the Basque Country, political party in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country that acts as the regional affiliate of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). History Although local Socialist groups had been active since 1886, and many affiliated with the PSOE (being Biscay one of the strongholds of Spanish social democracy, along with Madrid and Asturias), the PSE was actually established as a branch of the main party only in 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy, initiated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. During the violent years of the 1980s in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, mid- and high-ranking party officials held government positions in Spain and the region, as civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Spanish Local Elections
The 2019 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect all 66,979 councillors in the 8,131 municipalities of Spain and all 1,038 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities, as well as elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the four island councils in the Balearic Islands, the seven island cabildos in the Canary Islands and the European Parliament. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), invigorated from its general election win the previous month, emerged as the largest political party in the elections overall for the first time since 2007, scoring first place in the popular vote for the first time since 2003 and achieving its largest margin of victory over the People's Party (PP) since the 1991 elections. Conversely, the PP scored its worst result in local elections in Spain since the People's Alliance result in 1987, but managed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EH Bildu
EH Bildu, short for Euskal Herria Bildu ( en, link=yes, Basque Country Gather or Basque Country Unite) is a left-wing, Basque nationalist, pro-independence political coalition active in the Spanish autonomous communities of Basque Country, Navarre and Burgos Province. EHB's predecessor Bildu ("Gather") was launched on 3 April 2011 to participate in the May 2011 local elections It was formed as a reaction to the Supreme Court of Spain's ruling in March 2011 that barred the new left-wing Basque nationalist ''(Abertzale left)'' Sortu party from electoral participation. Bildu was an alliance of the centre-left Eusko Alkartasuna, left-wing Alternatiba and independents of the left-wing nationalist spectrum, many of whom former members or supporters of the outlawed Batasuna party. EHB was launched on 10 June 2012 in San Sebastián by five founding components: Eusko Alkartasuna, Aralar, Alternatiba, Sortu, and independents of the ''Abertzale left'' (groups and independent individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Maroto
Javier Ignacio Maroto Aranzabal is a Spanish politician serving as senator from Castile and León since 24 July 2019 and Spokesperson of the Popular Group in the Senate since 30 July. He was the Mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 2011 to 2015, the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava. At the same time, he served as member of the Basque Parliament and in 2016 he was elected Member of the Congress of Deputies until 2019. Biography Maroto was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, on 6 January 1972. After completing his studies at the San Viator School in Vitoria-Gasteiz, he studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Deusto and a master's degree in public administration and management from IESE Business School. He is a People's Party politician in the Basque Country. In 1999, he took part in the elections for Mayor of Vitoria. After having been a member of New Generations of Álava and after the victory of the People's Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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