Juan Cruz Alli

Juan Cruz Alli
5th President of the Government of Navarre
In office 3 September 1991 – 3 July 1995 Acting: 19 June 1996 – 18 September 1996
Preceded by	Gabriel Urralburu
Succeeded by	Javier Otano
Vice President of the Government of Navarre
In office 3 July 1995 – 18 September 1996
President	Javier Otano
Preceded by	Miguel Sanz
Succeeded by	Rafael Gurrea Induráin
Personal details
Born	Juan Cruz Alli Aranguren (1942-09-21) 21 September 1942 Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
Political party	UPN CDN

Juan Cruz Alli Aranguren (born 21 September 1942) is a Spanish politician and former President of Navarre between 1991 and 1995 and again for a few months in 1996.

He was a professor at the Law Faculty of Burgos in the University of Valladolid and is permanent professor of Administrative Law at the public University of Navarra. He was previously a member of the City Council of Pamplona and a lawyer.

Political career

His entry into politics was through the Provincial Social Democratic Party founded by Jaime del Burgo who joined in Union of Democratic Center in 1977. He then moved to Union del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), holding the positions of councilman of Pamplona between 1983 and 1987, leasehold parliamentarian from 1987 to 1995 and president of the Government of Navarra between 1991 and 1995. There he advocated for a more centrist UPN, less intransigent positions in its navarrismo, and called for a better understanding with the Basque Country and Basque nationalism in general. He also spoke for redefining Navarra as a nation and UPN as Navarre nationalist party, and the federalist constitutional reform as a solution to the problems of integration which defines Spain as a nation of nations.