Juan María Atutxa
Juan María Atutxa Mendiola (born May 18, 1941, in Areatza) is a politician from the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country (an autonomous community in Spain) with a Basque nationalism, nationalist ideology. A member of the Basque Nationalist Party, he was Basque Government, Head of the Department of Interior (1991–98) and List of Presidents of the Basque Parliament, President of the Basque Parliament (1998–2005). He currently heads the Sabino Arana foundation. Head of the Department of Interior (1991-1998) During his term as a regional minister, he was tasked with implementing the recently passed Basque Country Police Act which the regional police body (Ertzaintza) and mandated its extension to the whole autonomous community. Since then, the criminality rates in the Basque Country have consistently ranked among the lowest in Spain according to the data published each year by the office of the Spanish Attorney General. He also implemented the Emergency Response A ...
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