Uxue Barkos

Uxue Barkos
10th President of the Gobierno de Navarra
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 July 2015
Monarch	Felipe VI
Preceded by	Yolanda Barcina
Personal details
Born	Miren Uxue Barkos Berruezo (1964-07-05) 5 July 1964 Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
Political party	Geroa Bai
Alma mater	University of Navarra

Miren Uxue Barkos Berruezo (Pamplona, Spain 5 July 1964) is the current President of Navarre. She previously represented the Basque coalition Geroa Bai (Basque for Yes to the Future), and before that, Nafarroa Bai (Basque For Yes to Navarre), in the Spanish Parliament.

Barkos graduated in Information Sciences at the University of Navarra. She worked as a newsreader on Spanish National Radio (Radio Nacional de España) and for Televisión Española, the state run television stations. She also worked for the newspaper Navarra Hoy and from 1990 onwards she worked for the main Basque broadcaster Euskal Telebista.

In 2004, in order to maximise the Basque vote, the individual parties Aralar, Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Solidarity), Batzarre and the Eusko Alderdi Jeltzalea agreed to form the coalition Navarra Yes (Basque:Nafarroa Bai) to contest the Navarre constituency, an area where Basque nationalism had historically been weakest. Barkos, who was not a member of any of the parties, was selected to head the list at the 2004 Spanish General Election. The list polled 18%, which represented the highest vote share for any Basque list since democracy was restored in 1977. In Congress she has worked to promote Basque language and culture in Navarra, although she has been criticised by Batasuna, which is not part of the NB coalition. In Congress she was also a member of the Commission which investigated the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

External links

• Uxue Barkos' official website
• Interview in Diario de Noticias, March 2008
• TV interview, January 2006