Andoni Ortuzar


Andoni Ortuzar Arruabarrena is a Spanish Basque politician and journalist, and the president of the Basque Nationalist Party.

Early life

Andoni Ortuzar was born on 13 July 1962 in Sanfuentes, in the mining zone 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 and, 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.