Iñaki Anasagasti

In the mid-1950s, his parents decided that Iñaki and his three brothers had to be educated in the Basque Country of Spain, so sent their children to return to San Sebastián to the care of their grandparents.

He became acquainted with the exiled Basque Nationalist Party in Caracas, and studied Journalism and Sociology at the Universidad Católica Andres Bello run by Jesuits.

He was detained on 1 April 1976 with Joseba Goikoetxea (assassinated later by ETA) and Bingen Zubiri, and by order of the Minister of the Interior Manuel Fraga, he was jailed for three days.

He was chosen in 1977 as a member of the regional council of the PNV in Biscay (Bizkai Buru Batzar), a position that he occupied until 1980 under the Presidency of Carlos Garaikoetxea.

In 2012 he proposed the idea of creating a Catalan-Basque-Navarrese monarchy around Archduke Domingo de Habsburgo-Borbón, the Habsburg-Bourbon Carlist-Carloctavismo claimant to the Spanish throne.

Anasagasti in 2010
Anasagasti (right) and Javier Rojo, President of the Senate