Catalan Republic
Cataloguing Data
Period / Epoch
14 April 1931
Original title
República Catalana
Category
Speech
Description
The proclamation, on 14th April 1931, of the Catalan Republic by Francesc Macià happened after municipal elections in which Republican candidates won in the majority of cities throughout Spain and Catalonia, leading to the fall of the Bourbon monarchy and the inauguration of a democratic Republic.
Original language
Catalan
Date
14 Apr 1931
Author(s)
Francesc Macià
Context
With the victory of the Esquerra Republicana of Catalonia in the municipal elections of the 12th April 1931, Francesc Macià, on the 14th April, proclaimed “the Catalan Republic” in the hope that the other peoples making up Spain will similarly declare their own republics and form the Iberian Confederation”. This happened shortly before the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in Madrid. This proclamation worried the provisional Spanish government, which initiated a process of negotiation with Catalonia that culminated in the creation of a new autonomy personified by the restoration of the Generalitat of Catalonia, governed by an Autonomy Statute.