Javier de Andrés Guerra (born 3 October 1967) is a Spanish politician. A member of the People's Party, he served as

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from 2011 to 2015 and as Delegate of the Government in the Basque Country from 2016 to 2018. He was elected to the

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in the

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representing

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Biography

Javier de Andrés was born in

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in 1967. He studied journalism at the

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, and later obtained a master's degree in finance. He entered politics in 1995, and from 1999 to 2004 he served in various posts in the . He joined the

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of in 2004 as Foral Deputy for Public Works. He was the People's Party candidate for Deputy General in the 2007 election. Despite the People's Party obtaining the most seats in the General Assembly, Xabier Agirre of the

Basque Nationalist Party The Basque Nationalist Party ( , EAJ; , PNV; , PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially the Basque National Party in English, is a Basque nationalist and regionalist political party. The party is located in the centre of the political spectrum. It has been de ...

was elected Deputy General. He was elected Deputy General after the 2011 election with support from the

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. Despite leading the most voted candidacy again in 2015, he was succeeded by Ramiro González of the Basque Nationalist Party, whose party had obtained more seats in the General Assembly. He was elected in

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to the

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. He resigned after less than three months when he was named Delegate of the Government in the Basque Country. He was dismissed in 2018 after the

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in the central government, and substituted by .

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