Patxi López
| Patxi López | |
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| President of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 13 January 2016 – 19 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jesús Posada |
| Succeeded by | Ana Pastor |
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In office 7 May 2009 – 15 December 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Juan José Ibarretxe |
| Succeeded by | Iñigo Urkullu |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 13 January 2016 |
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| Constituency | Biscay |
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In office 17 November 1987 – 2 September 1989 |
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| Constituency | Biscay |
| Member of the Basque Parliament | |
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In office 15 March 1991 – 22 September 2014 |
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| Constituency | Biscay |
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Francisco Javier López Álvarez 4 October 1959 Portugalete, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Begoña Gil |
| Website | Official website |
Francisco Javier "Patxi" López Álvarez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpatʃi ˈlopeθ]; born 4 October 1959) is a Spanish socialist politician who was President of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country from 2009 to 2012 and President of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales, in the short lived eleventh legislature from January 2016 to July 2016. He was also Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra (PSE-EE), the Basque affiliate of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), from 2002 to 2014.
López, born into a socialist family, was influenced early in life by the political stance of his father, Eduardo López Albizu, a prominent Spanish left-wing anti-Francoist activist. He joined the Young Basque Socialist movement in 1975, and was its Secretary-General from 1985 to 1988. He joined PSE in 1977, and was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies at the 1986 General Election representing Vizcaya Province. In the PSE he rose steadily to prominence before being elected Secretary-General in 1997, having become a Member of the Basque Parliament in 1991.
López is known for his opposition to Basque independence. In 2005, he was the PSE-EE's candidate for the presidency of the Basque Country, but lost out to Juan José Ibarretxe of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
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