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Spanish politician

Gorka Urtaran Agirre (born 21 December 1973) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He served as mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz from 2015 to 2023.

Biography

Urtaran was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. His mother, María Jesús Agirre, was a Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) politician who was deputy mayor of the city during the mandate of José Ángel Cuerda and a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1995 to 1997. He graduated in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country, where he studied at its Leioa campus and wrote a postgraduate thesis on migration.

After being a civil servant in the Vitoria-Gasteiz Department of Social Intervention, Urtaran served in his province's Juntas Generales from 2007 to 2011. In December 2010, he was confirmed as the EAJ-PNV candidate for mayor in the next year's elections. His party came second to the People's Party (PP), whose leader Javier Maroto was invested as mayor. Four years later, the EAJ-PNV lost a seat and fell to third behind the PP and EH Bildu, but Urtaran was invested as mayor with the votes of his party, EH Bildu and two smaller groups. In 2019, he won a second term with the support of the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE). He did not stand for reelection in 2023.

References

  1. "Gorka Urtaran". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. "Fallece María Jesús Agirre, quien fuera vicealcaldesa de Vitoria" [María Jesús Agirre, who was the deputy mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, dies]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). EFE. 19 November 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  3. ^ Cueto, Iosu (15 June 2019). "Gorka Urtaran, un sociólogo con la política en los genes" [Gorka Urtaran, a sociologist with politics in his genes]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  4. "El PNV ratifica a Urtaran como candidato a alcalde de Vitoria para las elecciones de 2011" [PNV confirms Urtaran as candidate for mayor of Vitoria for the 2011 elections] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  5. Cueto, Iosu (12 June 2011). "El PP recupera la Alcaldía de Vitoria con los únicos votos a favor de su partido" [PP recovers mayoralty of Vitoria-Gasteiz with only votes in favour from its party]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  6. "Gorka Urtaran se compromete a ser el alcalde de "los acuerdos y los pactos"" [Gorka Urtaran promises to be themayor of "agreements and pacts"] (in Spanish). Deia. EFE. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  7. "Urtaran se compromete a abrir en Vitoria una etapa de "diálogo, entendimiento y acuerdo"" [Urtaran promises to open in Vitoria a period of "dialogue, understanding and agreement"]. El Plural (in Spanish). 15 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  8. Ortega, David (25 October 2022). "Beatriz Artolazabal sustituye a Urtaran como candidata del PNV al Ayuntamiento de Vitoria" [Beatriz Artolazabal replaces Urtaran as PNV candidate for Vitoria City Hall]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 June 2023.
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