Vicente González Lizondo

Vicente González Lizondo (22 August 1942 in Casas-Ibáñez – 23 December 1996) was a Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union (Unió Valenciana).

Early life Married with four children, González was a businessman and the owner of a factory which made paintbrushes.

His early political involvement was as a member of the Valencian Regional Union (Unio Regional Valencianista/URV), a political party formed after the Spanish General Election of 1977. Politically he was conservative Consequently, on 30 August 1982 he joined other members of URV in forming the Valencian Union (UV) becoming President for Valencia Province.

In 1991 he again ran for Mayor and again narrowly lost to Rita Barbera Nolla of the People's Party (PP)

National MP and President of the Valencian Corts Six years later in 1989 he headed the UV list in the 1989 General Election and was elected to the national parliament as a deputy for Valencia province. He was re-elected at the 1993 General Election however UV lost one of their two seats at that election. One year later, in October 1994, he resigned his parliamentary seat and was replaced by his party colleague José María Chiquillo Barber.

In 1995 he was elected to the Corts Valencianes, the Valencian regional parliament and was elected President of the Corts as a result of a pact formed between UV and the larger PP. rising to become Party President in Valencia Province. UV's results had continued to decline in this period and they had lost their representation in both the Corts Valencianes and Valencia city council in 1999 and in the national parliament in 2000.

In May 2007 he stood as the party's candidate for Mayor of Valencia but following further poor results the entire leadership of the party in Valencia Province resigned in protest at the actions of the Party's National President, José Manuel Miralles. This led to speculation that the resignations could spell the beginning of the end for UV as a party.