Estefanía Beltrán de Heredia | |
Office: | Spokesperson of the Basque Group in the Senate |
Term Start: | September 25, 2020 |
Birth Date: | 1960 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Valle de Arana, Spain |
Office1: | Minister of Security of the Basque Government |
Termstart1: | December 14, 2012 |
Occupation: | Agricultural Technical Engineer |
Party: | Basque Nationalist Party |
Office2: | Senator in the Spanish Parliament by designation of the Basque Parliament |
Termstart2: | September 25, 2020 |
Termend1: | September 5, 2020 |
Education: | University of Navarra |
Predecessor: | Jokin Bildarratz |
President1: | Iñigo Urkullu |
Predecessor1: | Idoia Mendia |
Successor1: | Josu Erkoreka |
Estefanía Beltrán de Heredia Arroniz (Valle de Arana, Álava, March 28, 1960) is a Spanish agricultural engineer and politician of Basque nationalist ideology.
Born in Ullibarri Arana, a small village in the municipality of Arana, with a little more than 200 inhabitants, located in the east of Alava, near Navarre. She lives in Vitoria.[1]
Since December 2012, she has been a security advisor to the Basque government. Previously, she was a Basque parliamentarian for five years in two different phases (1998-2001 and 2005-2007),[2] while in the Basque elections of 2012 she was elected fourth on the Basque Nationalist Party (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV) list for Álava. In addition, she was a regional deputy for agriculture (2007-2011). He was also a member of the Araba Buru Batzar (2004-2007).