Arnaldo Otegi

Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón (born 6 July 1958 in Elgoibar) is a politician from the Basque Country who has been the General Secretary of Basque nationalist party EH Bildu since 2017. He was a deputy of the Basque Parliament between 1995 and 2005 for both Herri Batasuna and Euskal Herritarrok. He was a convicted member of the ETA, an armed separatist organization, in his early years. He was one of the key negotiators during the unsuccessful peace talks in Loiola and Geneva, in 2006, as well as later peace talks that culminated in ETA's permanent ceasefire in 2011 and its full disarmament in 2017.