Miren Gorrotxategi

Miren Edurne Gorrotxategi Azurmendi (born 18 September 1967)[1] is a Spanish Podemos politician. She served in the Senate (2016–2019) and the Congress of Deputies (2019) before leading her party in the 2020 Basque regional election.

Biography

Born in Abadiño, Biscay, Gorrotxategi graduated with a law degree from the University of the Basque Country in 1991 and received a doctorate from the same institution in 1996. She began teaching classes there in constitutional law and the history of political thought in 1992.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] She was one of seven Podemos deputies to lose their seats in the November 2019 election.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[6]

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

References
  1. 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. "Vizcaya - Senadores" [Biscay - Senators] (in Spanish). Europa Press. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. "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.
  4. "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.
  5. "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.
  6. 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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