Joxe Pernando Barrena Arza was born on 1 November 1965 and is a Basque politician, former member of the Parliament of Navarre and former member of the European Parliament for Spain.
11 Facts About Pernando Barrena
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Pernando Barrena has Tecnico Superior qualification in international trade and a degree in international relations from UOC.
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Pernando Barrena is a translator by profession and worked at the Txalaparta publishing house in Tafalla translating Basque and English.
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Pernando Barrena was a municipal councillor in Berriozar from 1984 to 1999.
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Pernando Barrena was first arrested in 1985 for links to the separatist Euskadi Ta Askatasuna.
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Pernando Barrena became a member of HB's national executive in 1998 and was the party's spokesperson from 2001 to 2008.
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Pernando Barrena contested the 1999 regional election in Navarre as an Euskal Herritarrok electoral alliance candidate and was elected to the Parliament of Navarre.
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In 2001 Pernando Barrena became a member of the national executive of the newly formed Batasuna, the successor to HB which had been dissolved.
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Pernando Barrena was the lead candidate at the 2003 regional election in Navarre for the Autodeterminaziorako Bilgunea electoral alliance but the Supreme Court annulled the list as it considered AuB to be a successor to Batasuna which had been banned in March 2003.
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Pernando Barrena was a candidate at the 2007 regional election in Navarre for the Nafarroako Abertzale Sozialistak electoral alliance which was annulled by the Supreme Court.
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Pernando Barrena contested the election as an Ahora Republicas electoral alliance candidate in Spain and was elected to the European Parliament.