The socialist Idoia Mendia will resign from her position as vice president and Minister of Labor and Employment in the Basque Government to run as a candidate in the European elections. Although she He still doesn’t know what position he will run for.Mendia has presented his resignation in order to appear on the training’s European lists.

The department he heads has reported that the resignation It will be effective from next TuesdayApril 30, when the PSOE will approve its lists at european elections on June 9, which will be headed by the third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera.

Mendia has communicated his decision to the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, and explained in a statement that, given that currently the Basque government is in office and a new advisor cannot be appointed, they have agreed to keep all the rest of the department’s team in their tasks.

In this way, a correct transfer of powers will be guaranteed when the next Basque Government is formed, as the Lehendakari and the Vice-Lehendakari agreed in a meeting held this Friday.

Idoia has a degree in Law from the University of Deusto and joined the Basque Parliament in 2002. Seven years later, she was appointed by the Lehendakari Patxi López as Government Spokesperson and Minister of Justice and Public Administration, a position to which she added in 2012 that of responsible of the Interior, according to the PSE-EE portal.

In 2014 she was elected General Secretary of the PSE-EE, a position she revalidated three years later. Thus, since 2020, the previous Basque elections, she has held the position of Vice President and Minister of Labor and Employment of the Basque Government.