Yolanda Barcina Angulo (born 4 April 1960 in

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) is a

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politician who was the mayor of

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, Navarre from 1999 to 2011, and elected the chairwoman of the

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(UPN) in 2009. From 2011 to 2015, she was the President of the Chartered Community of Navarre. Barcina's parents settled in Navarre when she was 17 and she studied pharmacy at the

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. Barcina worked as a professor at various Spanish universities including the

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, where she served as the vice-rector from 1995 to 1996. Barcina was elected the mayor (''alcaldesa'') of Pamplona in 1999 and the vice-president of the UPN in 2003. In 2009, she took the position of Miguel Sanz in the party, before winning the elections for President of Navarre. In 2001, Barcina had a debate with actress

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about the San Fermín

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. She has distinguished herself for her hard-line approach on

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, and a rigid stance on environmental issues, favouring controversial engineering projects like the construction of the Itoiz Reservoir, the high speed train (in the offing) and the trans-Pyrenean motorway (in the offing). On this account, Barcina was subjected to a pie smash on the face at a meeting in Toulouse. Barcina held office in Navarre on a Regionalist ticket (UPN) from 2011 to 2015, initially with

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support. After regional elections, a multiparty coalition spearheaded by Uxue Barkos (

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) removed Barcina from regional office in July 2015. Barcina in turn announced a return to her former lecturer position at the

, UPNA, refusing to benefit from any privileged position that may be related to her time in office ("no revolving doors", August 2015). In October 2015, it was disclosed that she would sign up for a section of Spanish telecommunications corporate

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, as a member of its board of directors, and an initial annual salary of 200,000 euros on top of a reduced shift at the UPNA.

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Biography in El PaisOfficial Biography in Spanish
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