The Mayor of Bilbao ( eu, Bilboko alkatea, es, Alcalde de Bilbao) is the head of the municipal government of

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. He presides over the

Bilbao City Council The Bilbao City Council () is the ayuntamiento of Bilbao (Spain). Its headquarter, the Bilbao City Hall, is located in the Ernesto Erkoreka Plaza. The city council is made up of an executive body and a normative municipal plenary. The executive b ...

. The current mayor of Bilbao is

Juan Mari Aburto Juan María Aburto Rike (born 28 March 1961) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. He was elected Mayor of Bilbao, mayor of Bilbao in 2015. Biography Born in Bilbao, Aburto graduated in Law from the University of Deusto in 198 ...

since 2015.

Mayors of Bilbao since 1979

This is a list of the mayors of Bilbao since the restoration of democracy in Spain. Since the

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, seven individuals have served as mayors of Bilbao. The longest term was that of Iñaki Azkuna, who served for almost 15 years as mayor until his death. All modern mayors of Bilbao have been members of the

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