Telesforo de Monzón y Ortiz de Urruela (1 December 1904 in

Bergara es, vergarés, vergaresa , population_note = , population_density_km2 = auto , blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s) , blank_info_sec1 = BasqueSpanish , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 ...

, Spain – 9 March 1981 in

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, France) was a writer, politician and nationalist Basque leader. Monzón was an important leader of the

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during the Second Republic and the

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. After the end of the war, he was forced into exile for more than 40 years. After returning to the Basque region south of the Pyrenees, he became a major figure in the movement for Basque independence and was one of the founders of the coalition Herri Batasuna. At the 1979 General Election he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing

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,La Vanguardia, 3 March 1979, p13
/ref> the same district which he had represented from 1932 to 1936 during the Spanish Second Republic. He served until March 1980 when he resigned from the parliament. In the

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he was elected to the Basque parliament. He died in March 1981 and was buried in his native Bergara.

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* Sudupe, Pako 2011: ''50eko hamarkadako euskal literatura II. Kazetaritza eta saiakera'', Donostia, Utriusque Vasconiae. 1904 births 1981 deaths People from Bergara Basque writers Herri Batasuna politicians Members of the 1st Basque Parliament Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France {{BasqueCountry-politician-stub