Ximo Puig

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ximo Puig

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Ximo Puig en 2017.jpg

| monarch = Felipe VI

| office = President of the Valencian Government

| leader =

| term_start = 25 June 2015

| term_end = 13 July 2023

| predecessor = Alberto Fabra

| successor = Carlos Mazón

| office1 = Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

| term_start1 = 30 March 2012

| termend1 = 24 March 2024

| predecessor1 = Jorge Alarte

| successor1 = Diana Morant

| office2 = Member of the Congress of Deputies

| term_start2 = 13 December 2011

| term_end2 = 3 June 2015

| constituency2 = Castellón

| office3 = Member of the Corts Valencianes

| term_start3 = 11 June 2015

| constituency3 = Castellón

| term_start4 = 13 July 1999

| term_end4 = 22 May 2011

| constituency4 = Castellón

| term_start5 = 7 June 1983

| term_end5 = 17 April 1986

| constituency5 = Castellón

| birth_name = Joaquín Francisco Puig Ferrer

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|01|04|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Morella, Valencian Community, Spain

| death_date =

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| spouse =

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| party = PSPV-PSOE

| relations =

| children = 2

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| occupation = Journalist, politician

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| signature = Signatura de Ximo Puig.svg

| website =

| footnotes =

| office6 = Member of the Senate

| term_start6 = 17 August 2023

| constituency6 = Corts Valencianes

}}

Joaquín Francisco Puig Ferrer (born 4 January 1959), known as Ximo Puig ({{IPA|ca-valencia|ˈtʃimo ˈputʃ|lang}}), is a Spanish politician who served as President of the Valencian Government from 2015 to 2023. He was also the leader of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV-PSOE), the Valencian regional branch of the PSOE, from 2012 to 2024.

Life and career

Puig was born in Morella, Castellón. A journalist by profession, he worked for local newspapers and for the Antena 3 radio station.{{in lang|es}}[http://www.levante-emv.com/especiales/elecciones/2015/04/ximo-puig-n634_12_19622.html biography of Ximo Puig], Levante-EMV, 16 April 2015, accessed 20 May 2015 He was elected to the Corts Valencianes, the Valencian regional parliament, in the first democratic elections in 1983. He resigned his seat in 1986, when he was appointed Director General of Institutional relations and information in the Valencian regional administration, serving until 1995.

In May 1995 he became mayor of his hometown of Morella, serving until 2012, when he resigned after becoming leader of the PSPV-PSOE.{{in lang|es}}[http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/03/castellon/1338740869.html El secretario general del PSPV Ximo Puig dejará la alcaldía de Morella el 30 de junio], El Mundo, 3 June 2012 In the 2011 Spanish general election he was elected to the Congress of Deputies, representing Castellón Province. In Congress, he served as spokesman for the committee on industry, energy and tourism. In March 2014 Puig won the PSPV-PSOE primary to be the party's candidate for President of the Valencian Government in the 2015 regional elections. He received 68.8% of the votes in the primary.{{in lang|es}}[http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/03/10/valencia/1394475929_809447.html El triunfo en primarias blinda a Puig ante un mal resultado en las europeas], El País, 10 March 2014

On 25 June 2015, he was invested President of the Valencian Government with the favourable votes of PSPV-PSOE, Podemos and Compromís, succeeding Alberto Fabra and putting an end to two decades of PP governments in the region. He was re-elected for a second term, with the support of the same parties, on 13 June 2019.