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The Basque Government ( eu, Eusko Jaurlaritza, es, Gobierno Vasco) is the governing body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain. The head of the Basque government is known as the '' Lehendakari''. The Lehendakari is appointed by the Basque Parliament every four years, after a regional election. Its headquarters are located in the
During the current legislative term, the Basque Government is chaired by Iñigo Urkullu, member of the
Official website of the Basque Government
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Lakua
Lakua is a district of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, of the Basque Country, Spain
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district of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Álava.
The first Basque Government was created after the approval of the first Basque Statute of Autonomy
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on 1 October 1936, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. It was headed by José Antonio Aguirre ( EAJ-PNV) and was supported by a coalition of all the parties that fought the Nationalist forces in the Civil War: those comprising the Popular Front ( PSOE, PCE, EAE-ANV and other parties that sided with the Second Spanish Republic). After the defeat of the Republic, the Basque Government survived in exile, chaired by Jesús María Leizaola
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after the death of Aguirre in 1960. This first Basque Government was formally disbanded after the approval of the current Statute of Autonomy in 1979, after the death of caudillo Francisco Franco
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.
Upon approval of the new Statute, the new Basque Government was created (1980), superseding the Basque General Council. Carlos Garaikoetxea
Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza (born 2 June 1938) is a former politician from the Spanish Basque Country. He became the second elected ''Lehendakari'' ( President of the Basque Autonomous Community), after José Antonio Aguirre, who had held that ...
was the first ''lehendakari'' of the new Government.
Current composition
During the current legislative term, the Basque Government is chaired by Iñigo Urkullu, member of the Basque Nationalist Party
The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...
, thanks to a government agreement with the Basque Socialist Party-Basque Left Party (PSE-EE). Urkullu got the back up of 41 parliamentarians (30 from the PNV and 11 from the PSE-EE) in his inauguration speech that took place in September 2020.
The composition of the Basque Government is established by the President of the Basque Country, also referred in Euskera as Lehendakari, who selects the counselors that will lead each of the Government departments. During the current legislative term the Government is compounded by eleven departments: Security; Labour and Employment; Public Governance and Self-Government; Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment; Economy and Treasury; Education; Territorial Planning, Housing and Transport; Health; Equality, Justice and Social Policies; Culture and Language Policy; and Tourism, Commerce and Consumption.
Historic administrations
* Garaikoetxea I (1980-1984) * Garaikoetxea II (1984-1985) * Ardanza I (1985-1987) * Ardanza II (1987-1991) * Ardanza III (1991-1995) * (1995-1999) * (1999-2001) * (2001-2005) * (2005-2009) * (2009-2012) * Urkullu I (2012-2016) * Urkullu II (2016-2020)See also
* List of Basque Presidents * Basque Parliament *Basque Republic
The Basque Republic was a project for an independent Basque Country proposed in 1941 by Manuel de Irujo, at that moment the main representative of the Basque Government in London.
Precedents
:''See also Govern d'Euzkadi (in Catalan).''
During t ...
*Government of Navarre
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The Government of Navarre (Spanish: ''Gobierno de Navarra;'') is the institution of executive nature in which the government of the Chartered Community of Navarre (Spain) is organized. It is led by the President ...
* Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
References
External links
Official website of the Basque Government
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