– 4 December 2009 Barcelona

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) was a Spanish

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 politician

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, jurist

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 and one of the co-authors and "Fathers" of the Spanish Constitution of 1978

Spanish Constitution of 1978

-Structure of the State:The Constitution recognizes the existence of nationalities and regions . Preliminary Title As a result, Spain is now composed entirely of 17 Autonomous Communities and two autonomous cities with varying degrees of autonomy, to the extent that, even though the Constitution...

 following Spain

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's move to democracy

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.

From his youth Tura belonged to different leftish organizations, such as Popular Liberation Front and Bandera Roja. In the early years of the democracy he worked in the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia

Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia

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.

Inside the PSUC he worked with PCE

Communist Party of Spain

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 leader Santiago Carrillo

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 in defense of Eurocommunism

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. He was elected to Spain's Congress of Deputies in June 1977

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 and again in March 1979

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. He was one of the seven "Fathers of the Constitution" (politicians charged with writing a new constitution).

He left the PCE

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 and joined the Socialist Party (PSC-PSOE) and was elected anew for the province of Barcelona

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 in 1989

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, 1993

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 and 1996

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.

In 1985 he was elected Dean of University of Barcelona

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's Law School.

He was Minister of Culture under Felipe Gonzalez

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 from March 1991 to July 1993.

In 2008 he was the center of a documentary

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 called Bucarest, la memoria perdida that was filmed by his son Albert Solé. The documentary covered his life and his fight against Alzheimer's disease

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, and was awarded

23rd Goya Awards

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 a Goya.