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{{Short description|Head of government of the Basque Autonomous Community}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox official post
|post = President
|body = the Basque
|native_name =
|insignia = Coat of Arms of the Basque Country.svg
|insigniasize = 125px
|insigniacaption = Coat of arms of Basque Country
|department =
|image =
|imagesize = 165px
|alt =
|incumbent = [[
|incumbentsince =
|style = ''[[The Most Honourable|Excelentísimo Señor (m), Excelentísima Señora (f)]]''<br/>''[[The Most Honourable|Jaun Txit Agurgarria (m),<br/>Andere Txit Agurgarria (f)]]''
|residence = [[Ajuria Enea]]
|seat = [[Lehendakaritza]], [[Vitoria-Gasteiz]]
|nominator = [[Basque Parliament]]
|appointer_qualified = <small>[[Countersign (legal)|countersigned]] by the [[Prime Minister of Spain|Prime Minister]]</small>
▲|appointerpost = [[Monarchy of Spain|Monarch]]
|termlength = Four years
|inaugural = [[José Antonio Aguirre (politician)|José Antonio Aguirre]]
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{{Politics of the Basque Country}}
The '''President of the Basque Government''' ({{
The current lehendakari is [[
The Basque noun ''lehendakari'' means "president" and can refer to the president of any country, club, association etc.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mitxelena|first=Koldo|title=Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia / Diccionario Vasco|year=1987–2005|publisher=Euskaltzaindia|url=http://www.euskaltzaindia.net/oeh}}</ref>
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==History of the term==
The term ''lehendakari'' is a 20th-century coinage, from the Basque ''lehendabizi'' ("first") and the [[suffix]] -''ari'' which indicates a profession. Before the establishment of [[Standard Basque]] in the
The generic Basque words for "[[President (government title)|president]]" and "
Since the very moment when the noun ''lehendakari'' was coined, both ''lehendakari(a)'' and ''presidente(a)'' have been used as perfect synonyms to refer to the head of any public or private government organ.<ref>See the abundant examples in the ''Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia'' dictionary entry of ''lehendakari'': "Presidente. "Lendakari aukeratu zuten" Gte Erd 60. Euzko-Antzerti-Bazkunaren Lendakarijari. EEs 1911, 116. Gipuzkoako Diputazioko lendakari Julian Elorza jaunak. Muj PAm 9. Azkenengo ogasunzaia Antonio Alzibar eta lenbiziko lendakaria Bruno Larrazabal jaunak izan ziran. Eguzk RIEV 1927, 435n. Agur, Arana Goiri, geure lendakari / zintzo ta ona zaren jeltzale gurgarri. Enb 125. ["Eusko-Ikaskuntza"-ko] lendakariak batzarre-itxitzea yo zun. Ldi IL 94. Colombiako lendakari izana. PMuj Y 1934, 165. Obispoa zan, baño baita erri gizon bezela, lendakari edo agintari nagusi ere. Munita 32. Oraintsu arte bera izan da Luistarren lendakaria Itziar-en. Basarri 29. Ajuria'tar Kepa lendakaritzako. BEnb NereA 69. Agirre lendakari bikañari. Ugalde Iltz 3. Ez aiñ gutxi-etsi, lendakari baiño gutxiagoko zerbaiti eder-etsiaz. Berron Kijote 91. En DFrec hay 149 ejs. (2 septentrionales) de lehendakari y 23 de lendakari. v. tbn. Lendakari: JBDei 1919, 318. EEs 1920, 109 y 1924, 133. NEtx Nola 11. (Como primer miembro de comp.). Lendakari-aulki atzean lau ate-morroi, soin-ertzak urrez aski-apaindurik. Ldi IL 21. Lendakari-mai aurretik mintzategi bat dago. Ib. 25 (en ambos casos se refiere al Parlamento español)."</ref> So ''lehendakari'', in Basque language, is not only the name of the president of the Basque autonomous community,<ref>See [http://www.lehendakari.euskadi.net/r57-6449/en/ the official website of the president of the Basque autonomous community.]</ref> but also the name officially used to refer to the head of the Chartered Community of Navarre,<ref>See the [http://www.navarra.es/home_eu/Gobierno+de+Navarra/Organigrama/El+Presidente/La+institucion/ page of the Presidency of the Government of Navarre.]</ref> the head of a parliament,<ref>See the official pages of both [http://www.parlamento-navarra.es/hasiera/lehendakariaren-agurra.aspx the head of the Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016104244/http://www.parlamento-navarra.es/hasiera/lehendakariaren-agurra.aspx |date=16 October 2011
On the other hand, the word ''lehendakari'' is commonly used in Spanish, both in and outside the Basque region, to refer exclusively to the Basque president, comparable to the use of [[Taoiseach]] as the title of the
Lehendakaris elected for the [[Basque Nationalist Party|PNV]] have sworn office following a ritual established by Aguirre: next to the [[Guernica Tree]], on a
Former lehendakari [[Patxi López]] used a similar formula in the same place, but also included visible changes to it by suppressing the "before God, prostrated" part and the fact that he sworn on a [[Basque Statute of Autonomy]] rather than on a Bible.<ref>[http://www.publico.es/espana/223929/lopez/prometera/cargo/gernika/alusiones/religiosas «López promete el cargo en Gernika sin humillarse ante dios»], ''Publico'',
==See also==
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{{Departments Basque Government}}
{{Spanish Regional Presidents}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Presidents of the Basque Government| ]]
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