Andoni Ortuzar | |
Office: | President of the Basque Nationalist Party |
Term Start: | 12 January 2013 |
Predecessor: | Iñigo Urkullu |
Birthname: | Andoni Ortuzar Arruabarrena |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1962 |
Birth Place: | Abanto y Ciérbana-Abanto Zierbena (Biscay), Basque Country, Spain |
Party: | Basque Nationalist Party |
Occupation: | Journalist |
Andoni Ortuzar Arruabarrena (born 13 July 1962) is a Spanish Basque politician and journalist, and the president of the Basque Nationalist Party.[1]
Andoni Ortuzar was born on 13 July 1962 in Sanfuentes, in the mining zone (Biscay) in Spain. He studied the "sciences of information", branch of journalism, at the University of the Basque Country. At the end of his career, he became editor of the Radio Popular de Bilbao.
In 1981, the newspaper Deia where he remained until 1987. At Deia, he was head of the Labor and Euskadi-Politics sections. The ELA activist belonged to the works council.