Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez

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Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez is a former Basque regional minister for Justice and Culture. Leizaola was named President of the Basque Government in exile after Aguirre’s death in 1960. Leizaola settled in Paris, where he worked hard to denounce the regime in Spain and keep the flame of freedom and Basque self-government alive. In 1979, after 43 years of exile, Leizaola came home to a country busy setting the grounds for a democratic regime and a new system of autonomous communities. He also combined politics with intellectual and literary concerns. A highly cultivated and learned man, Leizaola was the author of Basque Literature and Studies in Poetry.