José Antonio Ardanza

José Antonio Ardanza Garro (10 June 1941 – 8 April 2024) was a Spanish politician who became the second elected Lehendakari (President of the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain) after the approval of the Statute of Autonomy. He was in office between 1985 and 1999.

José Antonio Ardanza
José Antonio Ardanza in 2012
Lehendakari of the Basque Country
In office
26 January 1985 – 2 January 1999
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Vice President
  • Javier García Egotxeaga (1985–1987)
  • Ramón Jáuregui (1987–1991)
  • Jon Imanol Azúa (1991–1995)
  • Juan José Ibarretxe (1995–1999)
Preceded byCarlos Garaikoetxea
Succeeded byJuan José Ibarretxe
Personal details
Born(1941-06-10)10 June 1941
Elorrio, Biscay, Spain
Died8 April 2024(2024-04-08) (aged 82)
Pedernales or Gautegiz Arteaga, Biscay, Spain
Political partyPNV

He was a member of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV). During his mandate, which was the longest for a lehendakari in democracy, he achieved the development of the Statute of Autonomy, the reindustrialization of the territory, the maintenance of good relations with Navarra, the territorial deployment of the Ertzaintza and promoted the Ajuria Enea pact in 1988, which at that time became the broadest political agreement to confront the terrorist group ETA and pacify the Basque Country, which during Ardanza's mandate the group killed more than three hundred people and which in 1998 announced the unsuccessful indefinite truce after the Estella pact.

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