Manuel Irujo: Un nacionalista vasco en la Transición democrática (1975-1981)

Abstract

In this article an analysis is made of the political trajectory of Manuel Irujo, the veteran nationalist leader, between 1975 and 1981. In spite of the fact that his old age did not allow him to have as decisive a protagonism as he had had in previous stages, Irujo actively intervened in the transition. Until 1977 he did so from the exile community in Paris, especially through the Spanish Council of the European Movement, of which he was the Chair. In 1977 he returned to his homeland, and was elected senator (PNV) in the first democratic parliament and thereafter he also became deputy in the Statutory Parliament of Navarre. He died in 1981.