Miren Gorrotxategi
Miren Gorrotxategi in 2019
Leader and spokesperson of the Podemos-United Left-Greens Equo-Green Alliance Group in the Basque Parliament
Assumed office
2020
PresidentIñigo Urkullu
Preceded byLander Martínez
Parliamentary groupPodemos-United Left-Greens Equo-Green Alliance Group
Deputy of the Basque Parliament
Assumed office
2020
PresidentIñigo Urkullu
Parliamentary groupPodemos-United Left-Greens Equo-Green Alliance Group
Deputy of the Congress of Deputies
In office
May 2019 – September 2019
MonarchFelipe VI
PresidentPedro Sánchez
Parliamentary groupUnidas Podemos Group
Senator of the Senate of Spain
In office
2016–2019
MonarchFelipe VI
PresidentMariano Rajoy
Parliamentary groupPodemos Group
Personal details
Born
Miren Edurne Gorrotxategi Azurmendi

(1967-09-18) 18 September 1967
Abadiño, Basque Country, Spain
Political partyPodemos
Alma materUniversity of the Basque Country
OccupationLawyer, jurist, university teacher

Miren Edurne Gorrotxategi Azurmendi (born 18 September 1967)[1] is a Spanish lawyer, jurist, university teacher and politician.

She is currently deputy of the Basque Parliament and leader and spokesperson of the Podemos-United Left-Greens Equo-Green Alliance Group in the Basque Parliament.

Previosly she served in the Senate (2016–2019) and the Congress of Deputies (May 2019–September 2019).

She is a university teacher of Constitucional Law at the University of the Basque Country.

Biography

Born in Abadiño (Biscay).[2] Gorrotxategi graduated with a law degree from the University of the Basque Country in 1991 and later got a postgraduate diploma in environmental law.

She began as a university teacher, teaching classes there in constitutional law and history of political thought in 1992.[1] She teached in Basque language.[2]

Political career

Gorrotxategi was elected to the Senate in the 2015 Spanish general election, receiving 8.11% of the vote and taking the last of four seats for the Biscay constituency.[3] In the April 2019 Spanish general election, she was elected to the Congress of Deputies by the same constituency, where she was running as number two on Podemos's list behind Roberto Uriarte.[4] She was one of seven Podemos deputies to lose their seats in the November 2019 election.[5]

In February 2020, Gorrotxategi was elected as Podemos's candidate for Lehendakari (regional president) in the 2020 Basque regional election, defeating the official candidate Rosa Martínez.[6] Her selection caused the party's entire board in the region to resign, and for Greens Equo to leave the Elkarrekin Podemos coalition and run alone.[7] In the election in July, her party fell from eleven seats to six; she was also the least recognisable of the candidates with 43% of respondents in a pre-election poll not knowing who she was.[7]

Personal life

As of 2020, Gorrotxategi lived in Durango and was married and had two children.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Egurbide, L. (25 June 2020). "Miren Gorrotxategi, la apuesta de Pablo Iglesias" [Miren Gorrotxategi, Pablo Iglesias's bet] (in Spanish). Noticias de Navarra. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Miren Gorrotxategi, la candidata a lehendakari de Pablo Iglesias: vecina de Urkullu y hermana de un famoso tenor". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  3. ↑ "Vizcaya - Senadores" [Biscay - Senators] (in Spanish). Europa Press. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Todos los diputados en el Congreso tras las elecciones generales del 28A" [All the deputies in Congress after the 28 April general election]. El Independiente (in Spanish). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Así será el nuevo Congreso: sin Rivera, con un cantante de Mocedades y un abogado de los Franco" [This will be the new Congress: without Rivera, with a Mocedades singer and a Franco family lawyer] (in Spanish). RTVE. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Miren Gorrotxategi, candidata del sector crítico a la dirección, gana las primarias" [Miren Gorrotxategi, candidate from the sector critical of the leadership, wins the primaries] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  7. 1 2 Gil, Iván (12 July 2020). "Podemos se desploma pese a sus ministerios: sin escaño en Galicia, irrelevante en Euskadi" [Podemos collapses despite holding ministries: no seats in Galicia, irrelevant in the Basque Country]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2023.
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