Ideological declaration of Esquerra Republicana of Catalonia
Cataloguing Data
Period / Epoch
19 December 1993
Original title
Declaració Ideològica d’Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
Category
Policy proposal
Description
In 1987, a manifesto was produced known as the National Call to the Left. This was signed by some hundred leading personalities from Catalonia’s public life, headed by Àngel Colom and Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, who wished for Esquerra to unite the new generation of independence supporters that had emerged as a result of dissatisfactions with the Spanish transition to democracy. The entrance of these young people energised the party and in the 16th National Congress, held in Lleida on 18th and 19th of November 1989, a new leadership was chosen that took on the independence of the Catalan Countries as a political objective. Thus was initiated a process of reinforcement for the independence supporting left.
Original language
Catalan
Date
19 Dec 1993
Author(s)
Josep Lluis Carod Rovira, Àngel Colom i Colom
| The 18th National Congress of the Esquerra Republicana of Catalonia was held in June 1992. It approved the restructuring of its Articles of Association in response to growing electoral support, increased militancy and greater territorial presence in the Principality, the Balearic and Pitiusic Islands, the Valencian Community and Northern Catalonia. In the first article of its Articles of Association, Esquerra proposed the territorial unity and independence of the Catalan nation, through the construction of a Catalan State within a European framework and within a left-wing ideological position which will take as its reference points democracy and the defence of the environment along with human rights and the rights of peoples. The party also chose to base its ideology and political action on social progress and national solidarity. This position was cemented by the 19th National Congress, in December 1993, with the passing of the party’s Ideological Declaration. |