Javier Lambán
Francisco Javier Lambán Montañés was a Spanish politician who was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as President of the Government of Aragon from 5 July 2015 to 11 August 2023.
Life and career
Born on 19 August 1957 in Ejea de los Caballeros, he graduated in history at the University of Barcelona.A member of the Ejea city council from 1983, he was a member of the provincial deputation between 1991 and 2012. He was elected President of the Provincial Deputation of Zaragoza on 15 July 1999. He became the Mayor of Ejea in 2007.
A member of the Aragonese regional legislature, the Cortes of Aragon, from 2011, he obtained a PhD in history at the University of Zaragoza in 2014, reading a thesis titled La reforma agraria en Aragón, 1931-1936.
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. He lost the re-election in the 2023 Aragonese regional election, and was succeeded by Jorge Azcón.
He was an open and strong critic of Pedro Sánchez.
Lambán died on 15 August 2025, at the age of 67, from the colon cancer he had been suffering since 2021.
On 7 October 2025, the Council of Ministers posthumously awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III.