President of the Government of Aragon

The president of the Government of Aragon (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno de Aragón), also known as the president of the General Deputation of Aragon (Spanish: Presidente de la Diputación General de Aragón) or, simply, the president of Aragon (Spanish: Presidente de Aragón), is the head of government of Aragon, an autonomous community in Spain. The President is elected to a four-year term by the Aragonese Corts.

President of the Government of Aragon President of the General Deputation of Aragon President of Aragon
Incumbent Jorge Azcón since 11 August 2023
Residence	Edificio Pignatelli
Nominator	Cortes of Aragon
Appointer	The Monarch countersigned by the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	Juan Antonio Bolea
Formation	9 April 1978

Election

Under Article 48 of the regional Statute of Autonomy, investiture processes to elect the president of the Government of Aragon require of an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot will be held 24 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If the proposed candidate is not elected, successive proposals are to be transacted under the same procedure within a 10-day timespan. In the event of the investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Corts shall be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Before 2007, the Statute provided for these parliamentary deadlocks to be solved by deeming the candidate from the party with the highest number of seats to be automatically elected.^[1]

List of officeholders

Governments:

•   UCD
•   PSOE
•   PP
•   Mixed coalition

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government Composition	Election	Monarch (Reign)	Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Juan Antonio Bolea (1930–2021)	9 April 1978	4 June 1979	2 years and 334 days		UCD	Bolea I UCD–PSOE–CAUD	N/A	King Juan Carlos I (1975–2014)	[2] [3] [4]
		4 June 1979	21 April 1980				Bolea II UCD–PSOE
		21 April 1980	9 March 1981 (resigned)				Bolea III UCD
During this interval, Minister Secretary-General José Ángel Biel served as acting officeholder.
	Gaspar Castellano (1928–2019)	9 May 1981	7 October 1982	1 year and 201 days		UCD	Castellano I UCD			[2] [5] [6] [7] [8]
		7 October 1982	26 November 1982 (resigned)				Castellano II UCD
During this interval, Minister of Governance José María Hernández de la Torre served as acting officeholder.
	Juan Antonio de Andrés (born 1942)	23 December 1982	3 June 1983	162 days		UCD	De Andrés UCD/Ind.[a]			[2] [10] [11]
						Independent
	Santiago Marraco (born 1938)	3 June 1983	30 July 1987	4 years and 57 days		PSOE	Marraco PSOE	1983		[12] [13]
	Hipólito Gómez de las Roces (born 1932)	30 July 1987	12 July 1991	3 years and 347 days		PAR	Gómez de las Roces PAR until Mar 1989 PAR–PP from Mar 1989	1987		[14] [15]
	Emilio Eiroa (1935–2013)	12 July 1991	15 September 1993 (censored)	2 years and 65 days		PAR	Eiroa PAR–PP	1991		[16] [17]
	José Marco (born 1950)	17 September 1993	17 January 1995 (resigned)	1 year and 125 days		PSOE	Marco PSOE			[18] [19] [20]
During this interval, Minister of the Presidency Ramón Tejedor served as acting officeholder.
	Santiago Lanzuela (1948–2020)	11 July 1995	31 July 1999	4 years and 20 days		PP	Lanzuela PP–PAR	1995		[21] [22]
	Marcelino Iglesias (born 1951)	31 July 1999	4 July 2003	11 years and 348 days		PSOE	Iglesias I PSOE–PAR	1999		[23] [24] [25] [26]
		4 July 2003	6 July 2007				Iglesias II PSOE–PAR	2003
		6 July 2007	14 July 2011				Iglesias III PSOE–PAR	2007
	Luisa Fernanda Rudi (born 1950)	14 July 2011	4 July 2015	3 years and 355 days		PP	Rudi PP–PAR	2011		[27] [28]
									King Felipe VI (2014–present)
	Javier Lambán (1957–2025)	4 July 2015	3 August 2019	8 years and 38 days		PSOE	Lambán I PSOE–CHA	2015		[29] [30] [31]
		3 August 2019	11 August 2023				Lambán II PSOE–Podemos–CHA–PAR	2019
	Jorge Azcón (born 1973)	11 August 2023	Incumbent	2 years and 6 days		PP	Azcón PP–Vox–PAR until Jul 2024 PP–PAR from Jul 2024	2023		[32]

Timeline

See also

• Joaquín Ascaso Budría, President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon

Notes

1. The UCD was dissolved as a political party on 18 February 1983.^[9]