It was during the university strikes of the 1960s when Jaime Guzmán, President of the Law Students Union at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile -who opposed the protests and strikes, led by the Christian-democrats and left-wing students- gathered a group of students and founded the "Movimiento Gremial" (Guildist Movement) and ran for the University's Student Union (Federación de Estudiantes) election.