Fernando Buesa

Fernando Buesa Blanco (29 May 1946 - 22 February 2000) was a Basque politician.

He was born in 1946 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. He studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria. He was councilman in Vitoria (1983-97) and president of the government of the province of Alava (1987-91). Buesa was of also deputy lehendakari (president) and secretary of Education in the Basque government from 1991 to 1994.

Fernando Buesa was married and had three children.

At the time of his death he was the leader of the socialist party in Alava and the socialist spokesman in the parliament of the Basque Country. Fernando Buesa was killed by the terrorist group ETA while he was walking through the university campus in Vitoria on the 22 February 2000. The car bombing also killed his bodyguard, the ertzaina (basque policeman) Jorge Díez. The killing inspired a celebrated documentary by the Basque filmmaker Eterio Ortega Santillana, Asesinato en Febrero (Killing in February).

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Fundación Fernando Buesa Fundazio (non-english)