Juan Mari Aburto

Juan María Aburto Rike (born 28 March 1961) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party.

Born in Bilbao, Aburto graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1984, and became a civil servant for the Provincial Deputation of Biscay in 1986.

[1] In the early 1990s, he worked in the Basque Government under Interior Minister Juan María Atutxa.

[5] Aburto won re-election in June 2019, forming the same coalition with 14 and 5 seats respectively and delegating four specific areas to the PSE.

[6] In April 2021, Aburto announced that he had cancer of the duodenum in the small intestine, having twice previously had the same diagnosis 13 and seven years earlier.