Edurne Uriarte

• Politician
• Political scientist

Edurne Uriarte
Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 2019

Edurne Uriarte Bengoechea is a Spanish politician, political scientist, and sociologist. She is a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for the People's Party of Spain, representing The Constituency of Madrid.

Life and career

Uriarte was born in Fruiz, a small town in Biscay. ^[1] She attended the Frúniz public school, at the Compasión de Munguía school, and at the Munguía Public Institute, where she focused on the study of music theory and especially the piano. ^[1] When she was young she became engaged in the anti-Francoist movement. ^[1]

In 1977, Uriarte became a journalism student at the University of the Basque Country. ^[1] Four years later, she attended the Complutense University of Madrid, where she studied Sociology and Political Science. ^[1] In 1987 she began teaching at the University of the Basque Country, and in 1992 she graduated from the Complutense University with a doctorate in Sociology and Political Science. ^[1] Her thesis was a study of Basque intellectuals. ^[1] In 1995, she became a tenured professor at the University of the Basque Country. ^[1]

In the 1990s, Uriarte was a member of the executive of the Partido Socialista de Euskadi (es). ^[2] In 1998, Uriarte was a co-founder of the civic association Foro Ermua , ^[3] and she became involved in the grassroots activist organisation ¡Basta Ya! ^[4]

Uriarte won the 2001 Chair of Political Science at the University of the Basque Country (es). ^[5] In 2002 she became the president of the Fundación para la Libertad, and distanced herself from her previous affiliation with the PSE. ^[6] This shift was partly prompted by her experiences opposing Basque separatist terrorism, which included dangerous encounters with the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna . ^[7]

Uriarte was listed in the third position on the party list of the People's Party of Spain in the April 2019 Spanish general election for the constituency of Madrid, ^{[2] [8]} and she won the seat, which she continued to hold through the November 2019 Spanish general election. ^[9]

Uriarte has published a number of books, including Cobardes y rebeldes (Cowards and rebels, 2003), ^[10] and Feminista y de Derechos (Feminist and right, 2019). ^[11] She was a 2004 winner of the Spanish Order of Constitutional Merit. ^[12]

References

1. Uriarte Bengoechea, Edurne (1995). Los intelectuales vascos (in Spanish). Universidad del País Vasco.
2. Lamet, Juanma (March 27, 2019). "Edurne Uriarte: "Creo en el PP de Rajoy tanto como en el PP de Casado"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
3. "La profesora de la UPV Edurne Uriarte, número tres del PP por Madrid". El Correo (in Spanish). March 25, 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
4. "Fernando Savater, Edurne Uriarte (segunda por la derecha) y Rosa Díez, miembros de ¡Basta ya!, ayer en San Sebastián". El País (in Spanish). October 11, 2002. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
5. Alfaro, Emilio (February 14, 2002). "Lizarra frente a Ermua en la UPV". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
6. "Mayor Oreja dice que "no hay que tener miedo a la reacción de ETA y su entorno"". El País (in Spanish). June 28, 2002. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
7. de la Gama, Amporo (January 22, 2018). "La vida de Edurne Uriarte después del exministro Wert". Vanitatis (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
8. "Edurne Uriarte, la férrea ensayista y escritora que ETA no pudo acallar". Cope (in Spanish). October 10, 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
9. "Uriarte Bengoechea, Edurne" (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
10. Zubero, Imanol (December 2, 2003). "Poder y debilidad". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
11. Calleja, Mariano (August 3, 2019). "Casado reivindica un "feminismo" que no victimice a la mujer". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
12. Almagro, M. (August 14, 2008). "La columnista Edurne Uriarte protagoniza hoy en El Puerto el Foro ABC". La Voz Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.