María San Gil

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María San Gil Noain (born 15 January 1965, in San Sebastian) is a Spanish Basque politician.

Born in San Sebastián, San Gil graduated with a degree in linguistics from the University of Salamanca. In 1991 she began working for theSan Sebastian city council, representing the conservative Partido Popular. On January 23 1995 she witnessed the assassinaion of her colleague Gregorio Ordóñez by the Basque seperatist group Eta, and thereafter decided that she would spend her political career fighting terrorism.

Rising steadily in prominence, in 2003 she became the leader of the Partido Popular's regional representation in the Basque Country. In the regional elections of 2005 she was a candidate for Basque president or lehendakari, but lost out to the moderate-nationalist candidate Juan Jose Ibarretxe of the EAJ-PNV.

San Gil is married and has two children.

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