Ramiro González (politician)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is González and the second or maternal family name is Vicente.

Ramiro González
González in 2023
Deputy General of Álava
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 June 2015
Preceded by	Javier de Andrés
Member of the General Assembly of Álava[1]
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 June 2007
Constituency	Vitoria-Gasteiz
Personal details
Born	Ramiro González Vicente (1962-04-20) 20 April 1962 (age 62) Burgos, Spain
Political party	EAJ/PNV
Alma mater	University of the Basque Country[2]

Ramiro González Vicente (Spanish: [raˈmiɾo ɣonˈθaleθ βiˈθente]; born 20 April 1962) is a Spanish politician. A member of the Basque Nationalist Party, he has served as Deputy General of Álava since 2015.[3]

Biography

He was born in Burgos, but moved to Vitoria-Gasteiz at the age of four. He studied law at the University of the Basque Country, and subsequently worked as a lawyer for 25 years. He is married and has two children. He has lived in Mendoza since around 2000.[4]

He became a member of the Basque Nationalist Party in 2002, and in 2007 he was elected to the Juntas Generales of Álava. During his first term, he served as deputy spokesman for the party under Deputy General Xabier Agirre. When Agirre left in 2011 after the election of Javier de Andrés, he became spokesman of the party in the Juntas Generales.[4]

In the 2015 election, his party became the largest in the chamber and subsequently formed a minority coalition government [es] with the Socialist Party of the Basque Country. Both coalition partners improved their results in the 2019 election, resulting in his reelection, this time heading a majority coalition government [eu].[5] He was reelected to a third term in 2023, returning to a minority coalition government [eu].[6] He is the first Deputy General that has served for three terms.

References

1. "GONZÁLEZ VICENTE, RAMIRO". www.jjggalava.eus (in Spanish). Juntas Generales de Álava. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
2. "Diputado General". irekia.araba.eus (in Spanish). Diputación Foral de Álava. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
3. Carazo, Ander (21 May 2019). "Los cinco candidatos a presidir la Diputación Foral de Álava". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2022.
4. "González recupera Álava para el PNV y su minoría le obligará a buscar pactos". Diario Vasco (in Spanish). EFE. 30 June 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
5. "Ramiro González, reelegido diputado general de Álava con los votos del PNV y PSE". EITB (in Spanish). 4 July 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
6. Echezarra, Saioa (2 June 2023). "Ramiro González encadena un tercer mandato histórico en la Diputación". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2023.

External links

• Media related to Ramiro González Vicente at Wikimedia Commons