Julen Guimón

Following his graduation Guimón worked as a lawyer and then became professor of political law at the University of Deusto.^[1] He entered politics during the transition period and served as general secretary of the Basque Christian Democracy which disappeared after its defeat in the 1977 general elections.^[1] Next he joined the Democratic Center Union (UCD) and was its secretary for Vizcaya.^[1] He was elected to the Cortes Generales in the 1979 elections from the party.^[1] He resigned from the UCD in 1982.^[1] He joined the provisional management commission of the People's Democratic Party, of which he was president in the Basque Country and general secretary at national level.^[1] Guimón was re-elected deputy in the 1982 elections.^[1] In 1986 he joined the People's Alliance and that same year he was elected again a deputy.^[1] In the European elections held in 1987 he was elected to the European Parliament.^[1]

In 1988 Guimón was one of the signatories of the Ajuria Enea Pact or Agreement for the Pacification of the Basque Country.^[2][3] On 8 August 1989 he resigned from his position as the People's Democratic Party's general secretary in the Basque Country.^[1] In 1990 he retired from political life and began to work as the magistrate in the Provincial Court of Álava.^[1]

Guimón continued to serve as a magistrate in the Provincial Courts of Vitoria and Bilbao until his death in Bilbao on 10 December 2001.^[1] Funeral ceremony for him was held at the El Salvador church in Bilbao.^[2]