Elixabete Etxanobe, convened as general deputy of Bizkaia with the votes of the PNV and PSE-EE

Elixabete Etxanobe she has been appointed deputy general of Bizkaia thanks to the votes of her party, the PNV and the PSE-EE, and will take over from Unai Rementería as head of the regional government.

Thanks to the government’s agreement with the Socialists, the Jeltzale candidate has obtained an absolute majority in the first vote of the session. The candidate nominated by EH Bildu, Iker Casanova, won only his party’s votes.

This is how Etxanobe has become the first woman in history at the head of the provincial government of Vizcaya. Elixabete Etxanobe Landajuela (Otxandio, 1978) has been elected by the General Assemblies of Bizkaia, meeting in Gernika, with the votes of her party and the PSE-EE, groups that have for the next four years renewed the coalition they maintain in government issued forally since 2015.

The new deputy general of Bizkaia has received 31 votes23 from the party Junteros, plus the 8 from the PSE-EE representatives.

Etxanobe has gained the upper hand over EH Bildu’s candidate, Iker Casanova, who received his group’s votes, as they were spent 5 blank votesof proxies of the PP and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU.

After the vote, the first deputy general of Bizkaia, who takes over from Unai Rementeria (2015-2023), was sworn in under the Tree of Gernika.

Presenting the candidacies, Etxanobe defended a regional government committed to developing the area “as an egalitarian society, where all people have the same opportunities and where no one is left behind”.