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Gorka Urtaran Agirre (born 21 December 1973) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He served as mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz from 2015 to 2023.
Biografía. Gorka Urtaran nació en Vitoria el 21 de diciembre de 1973. Su madre, María Jesús Aguirre, fue mano derecha de José Ángel Cuerda, alcalde de Vitoria entre 1979 y 1999. Cursó sus estudios en el colegio San Viator de la capital alavesa y se licenció en Sociología en el año 1998 por la Universidad del País Vasco. 1 Se afilió ...
18 hours ago · Gorka Urtaran, diputado foral de Políticas Sociales, interviene en las Juntas Generales. Redacción DNA Urtaran, en el transcurso de una rueda de prensa, ha admitido que son varios los factores que han contribuido a estas demoras, todos ellos relacionados con la nueva herramienta de valoraciones que se puso en marcha en 2023 para el conjunto ...
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Gorka was born in London to Zsuzsa and Pál Gorka. His parents had fled to the United Kingdom from Hungary after the failed anti-Soviet 1956 uprising and became naturalised British citizens on February 25, 1963. He attended St Benedict's School in west London, and received a lower second-class honours (2:2) B.A. degree in philosophy and theology fro...
Gorka worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense during the prime ministership of József Antall. Following the September 11 attacks, Gorka became a public figure in Hungary as a television counterterrorism expert. This led to his being asked in 2002 to serve as an official expert on the parliamentary investigatory committee created to uncover the ...
Gorka has been described as conservative but others described him as being far-right. In August 2017 Gorka opposed the Trump administration's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. In April 2018 Gorka defended the Trump administration intervention in Syria. Gorka supports gun rights and capital punishment. He opposes illegal immigration and g...
Shortly after taking a position in the Trump administration in early 2017, Gorka drew criticism from multiple commentators in academia and politics, who characterized him as a fringe figure in academic and policy-making circles. Business Insiderpolitics editor Pamela Engel has described Gorka as being "widely disdained within his own field." A numb...
The Order of Vitéz was a Hungarian order of merit founded in 1920 to reward heroic soldiers. It entitled the bearer to the title vitéz (literally: "valiant"), as well as a grant of land. The title was inheritable, passing from father to son. Like all such orders in Hungary, it was disbanded at the end of World War II. The U.S. State Department list...
Statements of support for Gorka, which have challenged the description of him as an anti-semite, all predated a 2017 story that connected him with another extreme far-right anti-Semitic group. In a 2007 video, Gorka declared his support for the Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard), a paramilitary group described by various sources as neo-fascist and anti...
Gorka married Pennsylvania native Katharine Fairfax Cornell on July 6, 1996, in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Sopron, Hungary. Sebastian Gorka has two children. The couple founded the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary, in 2003. Katharine Gorka has also been involved with the administration o...
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Gorka Urtaran Agirre (Vitoria, 21 de diciembre de 1973) es un político español, miembro del Partido Nacionalista Vasco. Fue alcalde de Vitoria entre 2015 y 2023. Wikiwand is the world's leading Wikipedia reader for web and mobile.
Gorka Urtaran. Urtaran Agirre est un nom espagnol. Le premier nom de famille, paternel, est Urtaran ; le second, maternel, souvent omis, est Agirre. Gorka Urtaran, en 2022. Gorka Urtaran Agirre, né le 21 décembre 1973 à Vitoria-Gasteiz, est un homme politique espagnol membre du Parti nationaliste basque. Il est maire de Vitoria-Gasteiz de ...
