The PNV proposes Eider Mendoza as Gipuzkoa's MP

The Gipuzko Buru Batzar (GBB) of the PNV has proposed Eider Mendoza as a candidate for General Deputy of Gipuzkoa and thus continue\u00A0at the head of the Provincial Council. The territorial leadership of the party has highlightedits political and institutional experience in both legislative and government, as well as its record in the Foral Government since 2023.

The proposal will now be submitted to the PNV affiliation in Gipuzkoa. The GBB believes that Mendoza brings together the experience needed to further develop the political training project in the territory with the aim of promoting economic development, social justice and political sovereignty.

The Territorial Directorate of the PNV has also presented Joseba Andoni Agirretxea as a candidate for the Presidency of the General Meetings of Gipuzkoa.

Eider Mendoza was born in Azpeitia in 1974 and moved to Hondarribia at the age of four. He studied business in Bordeaux, France and specialized in international trade. After working in Irun in a logistics and transport company, he joined the Basque Parliament in 2001 at the age of 27.

For a decade, until 2011, he was a member of parliament and coordinator and spokesperson for the social policies of the PNV, then between 2011 and 2015 he was a member of the General Meetings of Gipuzkoa and worked in opposition as coordinator of the jeltzale group.

In 2015, after winning the PNV election, he was elected President of the General Meetings of Gipuzkoa and held office until 2019, when he joined the foral government of Markel Olano as spokesperson and deputy of Governance.

In 2023he was appointed Deputy General of Gipuzkoa . according to the party, under his leadership budgets, fiscal reform and various sectoral initiatives have been approved through political agreements.

The GBB has also presented Joseba Andoni Agirretxea Urresti to preside over the General Meetings of Gipuzkoa, born in Ondarroa in 1966, has lived in San Sebastián since his youth, has been affiliated with the PNV since 1983 and is part of the municipal organization of the Antigua.

Agirretxea, who studied Basque Philology at the University of Deusto and has a long career in the Congress of Deputies, was a deputy between 2008 and 2011 and returned to the House in 2013.

Throughout his parliamentary career, he has chaired the Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and served as spokesperson for Culture, Education and Equality.