Fernando Buesa

Fernando Buesa Blanco (29 May 1946 – 22 February 2000) was a Spanish politician[3] in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) branch of the social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

[4] Born in 1946 in Bilbao, Spain, Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

He served in the Vitoria-Gasteiz city council from 1983 to 1997, in the Basque Parliament from 1984 to 2000 and as Deputy General of Álava from 1987 to 1991.

[6] On February 22, 2000, Buesa was killed by the separatist group ETA while he was walking through the university campus in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The car bombing also killed his bodyguard, the ertzaina (member of the Basque police) Jorge Díez Elorza.

Memorial to Fernando Buesa at the site of his assassination.