Iñaki Azkuna
Iñaki Azkuna | |
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 Iñaki Azkuna in 2005 | |
| Mayor of Bilbao | |
| In office July 4, 1999 – March 20, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Josu Ortuondo |
| Succeeded by | Ibon Areso |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Iñaki Azkuna Urreta February 14, 1943 Durango, Spain |
| Died | March 20, 2014 (aged 71) Bilbao, Spain |
| Political party | Basque Nationalist Party |
Iñaki Azkuna Urreta (14 February 1943 – 20 March 2014) was a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. He was mayor of the city of Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country, from 1999 until his death. In 2012, Azkuna won the World Mayor Prize, honoring the most outstanding mayors in the world, for his transformation of industrial Bilbao into a cultural centre.[1][2][3]
Azkuna died from prostate cancer on 20 March 2014 in Bilbao, Biscay. He was 71 years old.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Galarraga, Naiara (19 January 2003). "Una legislatura de gobierno nacionalista en minoría". El País (in Spanish). Edicíones El País. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ Surio, Alberto (17 June 2007). "Tensión del PNV con EA por dejarle sin las alcaldías de Azpeitia y Zumaia". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Sociedad Vascongada de Publicaciones, S.A. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ Crane, Helen (2013-01-11). "Bilbao mayor wins award for transforming declining city". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- ^ "Fallece a los 71 años Iñaki Azkuna, alcalde de Bilbao, aquejado de un cáncer". ABC (in Spanish). 20 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
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- Deaths from prostate cancer
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- 20th-century Spanish physicians
- Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country
- Knights of the Legion of Honour