Javier Lambán

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lambán and the second or maternal family name is Montañés.

Francisco Javier Lambán Montañés (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xaˈβjeɾ lamˈbam montaˈɲes]; 19 August 1957 – 15 August 2025) was a Spanish politician who was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and served as President of the Government of Aragon from 5 July 2015 to 11 August 2023.

Javier Lambán
Lambán in 2016
President of Aragon
In office 5 July 2015 – 11 August 2023
Preceded by	Luisa Fernanda Rudi
Succeeded by	Jorge Azcón
Secretary-General of the Socialist Workers' Party of Aragón
In office 31 March 2012 – 16 March 2025
Preceded by	Marcelino Iglesias
Succeeded by	Pilar Alegría
Mayor of Ejea de los Caballeros
In office 11 June 2007 – 15 July 2014
Preceded by	Eduardo Alonso Lizondo
Succeeded by	Teresa Ladrero
President of Provincial Deputation of Zaragoza
In office 4 August 1999 – 22 June 2011
Preceded by	José Ignacio Senao
Succeeded by	Luis María Beamonte
Member of the Senate
In office 6 September 2023 – 30 January 2025
Constituency	Cortes of Aragon
Member of the Cortes of Aragon
In office 21 June 2011 – 6 September 2023
Constituency	Zaragoza
Personal details
Born	Francisco Javier Lambán Montañés (1957-08-19)19 August 1957 Ejea de los Caballeros, Spain
Died	15 August 2025(2025-08-15) (aged 67) Ejea de los Caballeros, Spain
Political party	PSOE–Aragón

Life and career

Born on 19 August 1957 in Ejea de los Caballeros, he graduated in history at the University of Barcelona.^[1] A member of the Ejea city council from 1983 (he also joined the PSOE that year), he was a member of the provincial deputation between 1991 and 2012.^[2] He was elected President of the Provincial Deputation of Saragossa on 15 July 1999.^[3] He became the Mayor of Ejea in 2007.^[3]

A member of the Aragonese regional legislature, the Cortes of Aragon, from 2011,^[2] he obtained a PhD in history at the University of Zaragoza in 2014, reading a thesis titled La reforma agraria en Aragón, 1931-1936.^[4]

Voted President of the Government of Aragon by the regional legislature after the 2015 election, Lambán was sworn into office on 5 July 2015 at the Aljafería Palace.^[5] He lost the re-election in the 2023 Aragonese regional election, and was succeeded by Jorge Azcón.^[6]

He was an open and strong critic of Pedro Sánchez.^[7]

Lambán died on 15 August 2025, at the age of 67, from the colon cancer he had been suffering since 2021.^[8]