Imanol Pradales
Basque sociologist and politician, also president of the Basque Government
Imanol Pradales Gil (born 21 April 1975) is a Basque sociologist, university teacher and politician from Spain who is serving as Lehendakari of the Basque Government since 2024. He is a member of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV).
He served as Foral Deputy (regional minister) of Infrastructure and Territorial Development of the Foral Council of Bizkaia from 2023 to 2024, upon stepping down to contest the 2024 Basque regional election. He has held the position of Foral Deputy for Economic Promotion (2011–2015), for Economic and Territorial Development (2015–2019) and for Infrastructure and Territorial Development (2019–2023).
Previously, he held the position of managing director of the public talent recruitment agency Bizkaia Talent, attached to the economic promotion department of the Foral Council of Bizkaia between 2007 and 2011.
Early life and education
Early life and family
Imanol Pradales Gil was born on 21 April 1975 in Mamariga, a neighbourhood of Santurtzi, to a Basque nationalist family of non-Basque-speakers, the eldest of four children.
Pradales has displayed "having eight Castilian surnames", with his ancestors having immigrated to the Basque Country in the beginning of the twentieth century from Burgos, Valladolid and Cantabria. His father, Manuel Pradales, was born in Uribarri, Bilbao, and his mother, Rosa Gil, is from Santurtzi. Both of his parents joined the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) the same day in 1976. His father had previously been an underground member of the party during the Francoist dictatorship, and during the Transition he served as a member of the first Municipal Board of Santurtzi.
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