Xabier Arzalluz

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Xabier Arzalluz
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Born24 August 1932
Zaragoza University
Xabier Arzalluz.

Xabier Arzalluz Antia (24 August 1932

Christian Democrat, considered during the period one of the most powerful politicians in the Basque Autonomous Community
, making strategic decisions for the party he led from 1986 onwards.

Early years

Arzallus was born in

laicized
and got married.

Spanish transition to democracy

In 1977 and 1979, he was elected as a member of the

Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, contributing to its wording. He designed accordingly a strategy for the party along the lines of that Statute, called the Spirit of Arriaga. In 1979, he resigned his seat and succeeded Carlos Garaikoetxea as PNV leader, a position that he would hold until 2004. During his rule the PNV maintained its dominant position in the political life of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country
.

Later career

Later in the 1980s, Garaikoetxea, the ruling lehendakari, struggled for autonomy from the party. Arzalluz, however, asserted the authority of the organization over individual members. This issue, among others, led in 1984 to a schism within the PNV, and to the creation of a new party Eusko Alkartasuna, led by Garaikoetxea.[3]

Arzalluz was the main spokesman for the Basque Nationalist Party, publishing his opinions every Sunday in the Basque newspaper

Party Day and on the Day of the Basque Homeland. While liked by PNV voters, he was the least popular party leader among the general Spanish public in 1997.[4]

He had a reciprocal admiration for the

Christian Democrat International in the 1990s because of pressure from the Spanish conservative People's Party. Besides his political role, he had also been a professor of Constitutional Law (in the Basque language) at the University of Deusto in Bilbao
until 1999.

Death

He died in Bilbao on 28 February 2019 aged 86.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Parliamentary assembly, Council of Europe". Council of Europe. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Xabier Arzalluz". Biografías y Vidas (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  3. ^ Ormazabal, Mikel (12 January 2013). "Un partido al mismo compás". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  4. Unidad Editorial Información General
    S.L.U. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  5. ^ Lecumberri, Jokin (1 March 2019). "Muere Xabier Arzalluz, la voz indómita del nacionalismo". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  6. Prisa
    . Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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