Ramuntxo Camblong ( eu, Ramuntxo Kanblong; 11 November 1939 – 12 November 2021) was a French-Basque politician. He joined the

Basque Nationalist Party The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...

in 1997 and was elected to the in May 2004, for which he served as President from 2004 to 2008.

Biography

Camblong studied in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the prov ...

and taught electronics, mathematics, and physics in

Hasparren Hasparren (; eu, Hazparne) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. A resident of Hasparren is known as a 'Hazpandar'. Geography Location It's a ''commune fait partie'' of the Basque Province of Labo ...

from 1966 to 1975. He was in charge of external development for Sokoa SA from 1998 to 2002.

Political career

In 1969, Camblong co-founded alongside and . The organization promoted enterprises in the

French Basque Country The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country ( eu, Iparralde (), french: Pays basque, es, País Vasco francés) is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 1 January 2017, it constitu ...

with support from the

Mondragon Corporation The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in the town of Mondragon in 1956 by José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical ...

. He was then President of the Centre culturel du Pays basque from 1984 to 1988, then of the from 1990 to 1994. Camblong was elected to the Municipal Council of

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1939 births 2021 deaths Basque Nationalist Party politicians People from Labourd French Basque politicians Eusko Alkartasuna Party politicians French schoolteachers