Isidre Molas i Batllori (born October 12, 1940 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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) is a Catalan

Catalan people

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 politician and historian.
He has been the fifth President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia

Socialists' Party of Catalonia

The Socialists' Party of Catalonia is a social-democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain resulting from the merge of two parties PSC Reagrupament led by Josep Pallach i Carolà and PSC Comgres. It is the Catalan referent of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , and its Aranese section is...

 since July 19, 2008. He has been a Senator

Spanish Senate

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 from Barcelona

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 since April 5, 2000.

Early years

He was born in Barcelona in 1940. His father was a musician, Isidre Molas i Font, and he is the brother of the historian and writer, Joaquim Molas i Batllori. In 1963, he graduated in law in the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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. He was an active member of the Front Obrer de Catalunya (Workers' Front of Catalonia) and joined the left-wing anti-Franco movement Frente de Liberación Popular

Popular Liberation Front (Spain)

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(Popular Liberation Front). In 1962 he was judged and condemnated by a military court.

Beginnings in politics

In the first democratic elections in Catalonia after Franco he was elected deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia

Parliament of Catalonia

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 serving until 1988. From 1985 to 2008, he was the President of the Federation of the PSC in the Province of Barcelona

Barcelona (province)

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Recent years

In 2000

Spanish general election, 2000

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, he was elected Senator

Spanish Senate

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 from Barcelona

Barcelona (province)

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 by the Catalan Agreement of Progress

Catalan Agreement of Progress

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 (a union of a left-wing catalanist parties).

He was translated books, and he published articles from political science

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Publications

• Ideari de Francesc Pi i Margall (1965)
• Lliga Catalana. Un estudi d'estasiologia (1972)
• El sistema de partits polítics a Catalunya. 1931–1936 (1972)
• El catalanismo hegemónico: Cambó y el Centro Constitucional (1975)
• Salvador Seguí: Escrits (1975)
• Els partits polítics
• Comentaris jurídics de l'Estatut de Catalunya (1982)
• La ciutat llunyana (1981)
• Diccionari dels partits polítics a Catalunya (2000)