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Revision as of 14:55, 1 October 2019

This article is about the Catalan state proclaimed in 1931. For other uses, see Catalan Republic.
Catalan Republic
República Catalana (Catalan)
1931
Location of the Catalan Republic within Europe
Location of the Catalan Republic within Europe
StatusRepublic within Iberian Federation
CapitalBarcelona
Common languages
Demonym(s)Catalan
GovernmentRepublic under provisional government
Acting President 
• 1931
Francesc Macià
Historical eraInterwar period
• Proclaimed
14 April 1931
• Establishment of the Generalitat
17 April 1931
CurrencySpanish peseta (de facto)
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Restoration (Spain)
Generalitat of Catalonia
Second Spanish Republic
Today part of Spain
 ∟  Catalonia

The Catalan Republic (Catalan: República Catalana, IPA: [rəˈpubːlikə kətəˈlanə]) was a state proclaimed in 1931 by Francesc Macià as the "Catalan Republic within the Iberian Federation",[2] in the context of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. It existed between 14 and 17 April 1931, when it became the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous Catalan government.

History

Francesc Macià i Llussà
Proclamation of the Republic in Plaça de Sant Jaume, Barcelona, 14 April 1931

After the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Spanish republican parties agreed through the Pact of San Sebastián (17 August 1930) to prepare for a change of regime in case of victories in upcoming elections. In this project, there was a provision for the political autonomy of Catalonia, within the Spanish Republic. On 12 April 1931, local elections gave a large and unexpected majority in Catalonia (including Barcelona) to the Republican Left of Catalonia[3] (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), a party that had been founded three weeks earlier by the union of the independentist Estat Català and the Catalan Republican Party. Two days later (14 April), a few hours before the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid, ERC's leader, Francesc Macià, proclaimed the "Catalan Republic" from the balcony of the Palace of the Generalitat (then the seat of the Provincial Deputation of Barcelona), "expecting that the other peoples of Spain would constitute themselves as republics, in order to establish an Iberian Confederation".[4] Macià was appointed acting president.

Immediately, Macià began exercising power and dismissed General Despujols, chief of the Spanish Army in Catalonia, appointing in his place General López Ochoa, who was loyal to the new republican government, while fellow party member, Lluís Companys, was designated civil governor of Barcelona and Jaume Aiguader became mayor of Barcelona. The jurist Oriol Angera de Sojo was appointed president of the Territorial Audience of Barcelona[5] (the highest court of justice in Catalonia at the time). Helped by socialist Manuel Serra i Moret, he also appointed the ministers of the Catalan government, dominated by the Republican Left of Catalonia. He included among his ministers a member of the Radical Republican Party, a member of the UGT trade union, a member of Acció Catalana, as well as two representatives from the Socialist Union of Catalonia, but none from the previously hegemonic and conservative Regionalist League. (In the streets many citizens clamored against the leader of the League, chanting "Long live Macià and death to Cambó!").[6] Macià even offered a ministry to the anarchist trade union CNT, but the anarcho-syndicalist organization finally refused to participate, claiming its traditional apoliticism.[7]

The provisional government of the Catalan Republic was made up of:[8]

The next steps of the new Catalan Government involved taking control of the territory. It ordered every municipality in Catalonia to ensure the proclamation of the Republic. It also appointed delegates of the government in the provinces of Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. On 15 April, a decree making Catalan the official language was passed.

Three days later (17 April), the government of the new Spanish Republic, concerned about this proclamation and the duality of powers it created, sent three ministers (Fernando de los Ríos, Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer and Marcel·lí Domingo) to Barcelona in order to negotiate with Macià and the Catalan Government. Macià reached an agreement with the three ministers,[9] in which the Catalan Republic was renamed the Generalitat of Catalonia (Catalan: Generalitat de Catalunya), becoming an autonomous government within the Spanish Republic,[10][11] that would be granted a Statute of Autonomy after the elections for Spain's Parliament (Cortes Generales). Francesc Macià would become the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (as acting until November 1932, when he was elected by the Parliament of Catalonia), a position he held until his death in December 1933.

References

  1. ^ Torra, Quim (15 April 2012). "Una República Catalana que governa". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Spain: Macià's Catalonia". Time. 20 June 1932.
  3. ^ Soler Becerro, Raimon. Les eleccions municipals de 1934 a Catalunya. Apèndix 1: Les eleccions municipals de 1931.
  4. ^ Juliá, Santos (2009). La Constitución de 1931. Lustel, Madrid pp. 31-32 ISBN 978-84-9890-083-5
  5. ^ Fontana, Josep (2014). La Formació d'una identitat. Una història de Catalunya. Ed. Eumo. p. 335. ISBN 9788497665261.
  6. ^ Balcells, Albert (2006). «El reto de Cataluña». La Aventura de la Historia (15). ISSN 1579-427X.
  7. ^ De la Granja, José Luis; Beramendi, Justo; Anguera, Pere (2001). La España de los nacionalismos y las autonomías. Madrid: Síntesis. p. 125. ISBN 84-7738-918-7.
  8. ^ "El Gobierno Provisional de Cataluña". La Vanguardia: 7. 16 April 1931. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  9. ^ Mata, Jordi (17 April 2006). "La República dels 3 dies". El Triangle. 775: 36–37.
  10. ^ Torra, Quim (17 April 2012). "L'últim acte de la República Catalana". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  11. ^ Carr, Raymond. Modern Spain: 1975-1980. Oxford University Press, 1980, p.xvi.

External links

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