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juan carlos i yolanda barcina '' incumbent '' miren uxue barkos berruezo pamplona , navarre , spain spanish geroa bai president of the gobierno de navarra 5 july 1964 10th 20 july 2015 uxue barkos 2015.jpg uxue barkos
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miren uxue barkos berruezo -lrb- pamplona , spain 5 july 1964 -rrb- is the current president of navarre , representing the basque coalition geroa bai , and before nafarroa bai , i.e. in euskera `` yes to navarre '' , -lrb- nb -rrb- in the spanish parliament .
barkos graduated in information sciences at the university of navarra .
she worked as a newsreader on spanish national radio -lrb- radio nacional de españa -rrb- and for televisión española , the state run television stations .
she also worked for the newspaper navarra hoy and since 1990 has worked for the main basque broadcaster euskal telebista .
in 2004 , in order to maximise the basque vote , the individual parties aralar , eusko alkartasuna -lrb- basque solidarity -rrb- , batzarre and the eusko alderdi jeltzalea agreed to form the coalition navarra yes -lrb- basque : nafarroa bai -rrb- to contest the navarre constituency , an area where basque nationalism had historically been weakest .
barkos , who was not a member of any of the parties , was selected to head the list at the 2004 spanish general election .
the list polled 18 % , which represented the highest vote share for any basque list since democracy was restored in 1977 .
in congress she has worked to promote basque language and culture in navarra , although she has been criticised by batasuna , which is not part of the nb coalition .
in congress she was also a member of the commission which investigated the 2004 madrid train bombings .
