Basque Government

{{Short description|Government body in Spain}} {{Infobox executive government | government_name = Basque Government | nativename = {{lang|eu|Eusko Jaurlaritza}}<br>{{lang|es|Gobierno Vasco}} | image = Logotipo del Gobierno Vasco.svg | image_size = 200px | date_established = [[Consejo General Vasco]] (1978-80) <br> [[Gobierno de Euzkadi]] (1936-79) | polity = [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] | leader_title = [[Lehendakari]] | responsible = [[Basque Parliament]] | appointed = [[Monarchy of Spain|King of Spain]] | address = [[Vitoria-Gasteiz]] | budget = €11.75 billion (2020) | url = {{URL|https://www.euskadi.eus/}} }}

The '''Basque Government''' ({{langx|eu|Eusko Jaurlaritza}}, {{langx|es|Gobierno Vasco}}; {{langx|fr|Gouvernement Basque}}) is the governing body of the [[Basque Autonomous Community]] of [[Spain]]. The head of the Basque government is known as the ''[[Lehendakari]]''. The Lehendakari is appointed by the [[Basque Parliament]] every four years, after a regional election. Its headquarters are located in the [[Lakua]] district of [[Vitoria, Spain|Vitoria-Gasteiz]] in [[Álava]].

The first Basque Government was created after the approval of the first Basque [[Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1936|Statute of Autonomy]] on 1 October 1936, in the midst of the [[Spanish Civil War]]. It was headed by [[José Antonio Aguirre (politician)|José Antonio Aguirre]] ([[EAJ-PNV]]) and was supported by a coalition of all the parties that fought the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist forces]] in the Civil War: those comprising the [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] ([[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]], [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]], [[Basque Nationalist Action|EAE-ANV]] and other parties that sided with the [[Second Spanish Republic]]). After the defeat of the Republic, the Basque Government survived in exile, chaired by [[Jesús María Leizaola]] after the death of Aguirre in 1960. This first Basque Government was formally disbanded after the approval of the current Statute of Autonomy in 1979, after the death of [[caudillo]] [[Francisco Franco]].

Upon approval of the new Statute, the new Basque Government was created (1980), superseding the Basque General Council. [[Carlos Garaikoetxea]] was the first ''lehendakari'' of the new Government.

== Current composition == {{Main|Government of Imanol Pradales}} [[File:Imanol_Pradales_2024_Pasaia_(53506246383)_(cropped).jpg|thumb|Imanol Pradales (EAJ-PNV), the current Lehendakari.]] During the current legislative term, the Basque Government is chaired by [[Imanol Pradales]], member of the [[Partido Nacionalista Vasco|Basque Nationalist Party]], thanks to a government agreement with the [[Partido Socialista de Euskadi|Basque Socialist Party-Basque Left Party (PSE-EE)]]. Urkullu got the back up of 39 parliamentarians (27 from the PNV and 12 from the PSE-EE) in his inauguration speech that took place in June 2024.

The composition of the Basque Government is established by the President of the Basque Country, also referred in [[Euskera]] as [[Lehendakari]], who selects the counselors that will lead each of the Government departments. During the current legislative term the Government is composed of fifteen departments: Culture and Language Policy; Economy, Labour and Employment; Treasury and Finance; Governance, Digital Administration and Self-Government; Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability; Security; Education; Housing and Urban Agenda; Health; Welfare, Youth and the Demographic Challenge; Sustainable Mobility; Science, Universities and Innovation; Tourism, Trade and Consumer Affairs; Food, Rural Development, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Justice and Human Rights.<ref name="StructureA">{{cite journal |date=24 June 2024 |title=DDECRETO 18/2024, de 23 de junio, del Lehendakari, de creación, supresión y modificación de los Departamentos de la Administración General de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco y de determinación de funciones y áreas de actuación de los mismos. |url=https://www.euskadi.eus/web01-bopv/es/bopv2/datos/2024/06/2403015a.shtml |language=es |issue=123 |page=3015 |issn=2483-5374}}</ref> It has 78,000 employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/dms/es/servicios/empleo_publico/boletin/boletin/Bol_estad_pers-juli11-INTERNET |title=Boletín Estadístico del personal al servicio de las Administraciones Públicas. Julio 2011 |trans-title=Statistical Bulletin of the personnel at the service of the Public Administrations. July 2011 |access-date=2013-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126080209/http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/dms/es/servicios/empleo_publico/boletin/boletin/Bol_estad_pers-juli11-INTERNET |archive-date=2012-11-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eustat.es/elementos/ele0009200/ti_Personal_efectivo_al_servicio_de_las_Administraciones_Vascas_por_tipo_de_administracion_y_sexo_2010/tbl0009279_c.html#axzz2LMYAmayw |title=Personal medio empleado en las administraciones públicas vascas por tipo de administración. 2016-2019 |trans-title=Average personnel employed in the Basque public administrations by type of administration. 2016-2019 |website=www.eustat.es |date=22 December 2020 |access-date=22 May 2021}}</ref>

== List of powers == Power held by the Basque country include but are not limited to:

=== Politics, bureaucracy and justice ===

* Basque Country statistics. * Economic planning. * Internal trade. * Justice (as determined by the Organic Laws of Judiciary and of the [[General Council of the Judiciary]]), excluding military justice. * Autonomous police force.

=== Finance ===

* Co-operatives, Mutual Benefit Societies (not owned by Social Security). * Banks (under state monetary policy).

=== Industry ===

* Public sector. * Planning of inland territory and coastline, town planning and housing. * Woodland and forestry. * Agriculture and livestock. * Fishing inland. * Pharmaceutical control. * Scientific research. * Professional associations * Casinos, gaming, betting, except for the national system of wagers for sporting charities.

=== Infrastructure ===

* Hydraulic projects, canals and irrigation schemes when the waters flow, in their entirety, within the Basque Country * Distribution and transport of energy used within the Basque country only. * Railways, transport by land, sea, river and cable, ports, heliports, airports. * Community development.

=== Health and social ===

* Health * Social welfare work.

=== Education ===

* Responsibility for all education

=== Culture ===

* Culture * Responsibility for Spanish and Basque languages * Independent television, radio and press. * Fine Arts institutions * Historical, artistic, monumental, archeological and scientific heritage. * Archives, Libraries and Museums not owned by the state. * Tourism, sport, leisure and entertainment. * Public performances.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2004-07-16 |title=The statue of autonomy of the Basque Country |url=https://www.euskadi.eus/web01-ejeduki/en/contenidos/informacion/estatuto_guernica/en_455/index.shtml |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=www.euskadi.eus |language=en}}</ref>

== Historic administrations == * Garaikoetxea I (1980-1984) * Garaikoetxea II (1984-1985) * Ardanza I (1985-1987) * Ardanza II (1987-1991) * Ardanza III (1991-1995) * {{ill|IV. Ardanza gobernua|eu|lt=Ardanza IV}} (1995-1999) * {{ill|I. Ibarretxe gobernua|eu|lt=Ibarretxe I}} (1999-2001) * {{ill|II. Ibarretxe gobernua|eu|lt=Ibarretxe II}} (2001-2005) * {{ill|III. Ibarretxe gobernua|eu|lt=Ibarretxe III}} (2005-2009) * {{ill|López gobernua|eu|lt=López}} (2009-2012) * [[First Urkullu Government|Urkullu I]] (2012-2016) * [[Second Urkullu Government|Urkullu II]] (2016-2020) * [[Third government of Iñigo Urkullu|Urkullu III]] (2020-2024)

== See also == *[[List of Basque Presidents]] *[[Basque Parliament]] *[[Basque Republic]] *[[Government of Navarre]] *[[Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category|Basque Government}} *[http://www.euskadi.eus/ Official website of the Basque Government] {{in lang|eu|es}}

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