Luis María Beamonte Mesa (born 10 September 1963) is a Spanish People's Party politician. He is a member of the Cortes of Aragon (2011; 2015–), where he has led his party since 2019. He was previously the mayor of

Tarazona Tarazona is a town and municipality in the Tarazona y el Moncayo comarca, province of Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain. It is the capital of the Tarazona y el Moncayo Aragonese comarca. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarazona. ...

(2007–2019) and president of the provincial deputation of the

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(2011–2015).

Biography

Born in

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Navarre Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...

, Beamonte studied Law at the

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from 1982 to 1989, but did not finish his course until 2017, when his degree was awarded by

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in Madrid. Elected a city councillor in

in the

in 2003, he became mayor four years later and president of the province's branch of the People's Party (PP) in 2008. In 2011, after winning a second term as mayor, he was also invested as president of the provincial deputation with support from the

Aragonese Party The Aragonese Party ( es, Partido Aragonés, PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initia ...

(PAR), ending 12 years of

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(PSOE) governance. Beamonte was also elected to the Cortes of Aragon in the

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, but resigned in August of the same year to concentrate on his other offices. In June 2015, he earned a third term as mayor, with the PP taking 10 of 17 seats in the city hall. Later the same month, he lost his provincial office to the PSOE's Juan Antonio Sánchez Quero, the mayor of

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. In March 2017, Beamonte was elected president of the

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, with 97.8% of the votes. In December 2018, he was named the party's lead candidate for the 2019 Aragonese regional election. The party came second, and would have formed a majority if it formed a pact with

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, Vox and the PAR. This did not come to be, as incumbent president

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's PSOE formed a government with Podemos, the

Chunta Aragonesista The Chunta Aragonesista (CHA; en, Aragonese Union)Rendering the party's name has created some confusions due to the similarity with the Spanish word ''junta''. The right translation of Aragonese ''chunta'' is ''unión'' in Spanish and '' union'' ...

and the PAR. In the same year, he did not run for re-election as mayor of Tarazona.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beamonte, Luis Maria 1963 births Living people People from Tudela, Navarre Politicians from Navarre University of Zaragoza alumni Mayors of places in Aragon Members of the Cortes of Aragon People's Party (Spain) politicians