Garrido has been a Basque parliamentarian since 2006 and succeeds Carmelo Barrio as spokesperson for the group.
Laura Garrido from Alava will be the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Basque Parliament in the parliamentary term that started this Tuesday with the plenary session of the chamber’s constitution.
“An experienced parliamentarian, an authoritative voice and a rigorous politician like Laura Garrido will be the spokesperson of the popular group,” announced the president of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés, via social networks.
The announcement was published by De Andrés while the Constituent Session of the Chamber of this 13th term is taking place, in which “solving the real problems of the Basques will be the priority” of this party, according to its leader in Euskadi.
Laura Garrido (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1970) has been a Basque parliamentarian since 2006 and takes over the position of spokesperson for the group from Carmelo Barrio, who left the Autonomous Chamber in March to take the seat in Congress that De Andrés himself had left for lehendakari in the recent April 21 regional elections.
Garrido, a law graduate and bilingual Spanish-Basque, began her political career in 1999. That year she was elected councilor in Barrundia, where she remained until 2007, and lawyer in the General Assemblies, a position she held until 2006 , when she was elected a Basque parliamentarian.
Within the party, she served as Secretary of the Organization between 2007 and 2008, Executive Deputy Secretary in 2008 and Secretary General from 2020 to 2023. That year, with De Andrés already as president of the Popular Basques, she was replaced as secretary general by Esther Martínez. .
Source: EITB
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