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Manuel Serra Moret

Manuel Serra Moret (Vic, 1884 - Perpinyà, 1963) was a Catalan politician and writer, cofounder of the political party Unió Socialista de Catalunya, USC (Socialist Union of Catalonia), Conseller of Economy and Labour of the Generalitat de Catalunya and exile President of the Parliament of Catalonia.

Biography

Son of the historian Josep Serra Campdelacreu studied economy, sociology and history in the United States of America and England. He married Sara Llorens Carreras in 1908. He lived in Argentina between 1907 and 1909, during the Spanish dictatorships of Primo de Rivera (1925-1926) and Francisco Franco (1939-1946). Died 1963 in the French city of Perpignan still in exile.

Political Trajectory

In 1914 he was elected major of the town of Pineda de Mar, a position he held until 1923. He first was a member of the party Unió Catalanista and since 1916 of the Catalan Federation of the PSOE. In 1923 he abandons this party to found the USC (Socialist Union of Catalonia) with Rafael Campalans amongst others.

The 28th of April of 1931 he is chosen as Minister of Economy and Labour for the provisional government of the Generalitat of Catalonia presided by Francesc Macià i Llussà. Later in the same year (28th June) he is elected as a deputy to the Spanish Constituent Assembly which later drafted the Spanish Constitution of 1931. In the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, held on the 20th November 1931, he became the candidate with the higher number of votes (78.814) of all Catalonia, even more than those obtained by Lluis Companys who became President of the Generalitat of Catalonia in 1933. On the 14th of November of 1933 he is also elected as a member of the Spanish Republican Parliament.

In the last session of the Parliament of Catalonia (1st October 1938) before its dissolution after the Spanish Republic losing the Spanish Civil War, he was elected second vice-president of the Parliament. This meant that when in 1949 the president of the Catalan Parliament (Antoni Rovira Virgili) died, he became acting president himself, a position held until 1954. This very same year as the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia stepped down of his post due to his advanced age he should have been nominated President of the Generalitat. Nevertheless, Josep Tarradellas became the next president in an election performed by the exile members of the Catalan Parliamnet in Mexico.

In recognition to his political and human trajectory the re-established Generalitat of Catalonia created in 1982 an award for research works on public spirit named after him, Premi Serra i Moret per a obres i treballs sobre civisme.

The Exile Years

Since 1939 and until his death in 1963 he lived in exile. After a few days walk he finally manages to cross the french border on the 31st of January 1939. During the firsts days he stays in Perpignan, a little city close to border but soon will move to England where he had contacts with members of the Labour Party. Nevertheless, being unable to find a job and with the menace of the outbreak of the Second World War he flies to Argentina were his wife Sara lived. Manuel Serra and his family did not move to Europe until 1948, settling in Perpignan from where they never moved again. Serra i Moret committed the years in exile to writing and politics, he actually wrote his most influential political essays and economical studies during those years. He became a reference of socialsm and catalanism for the catalans in exile as well as those in Catalonia.

Publications

Throughout his life Manuel Serra Moret published hundreds of articles in political and economical journals. He was also known for his abilities as an orator and many of his conferences were later transcribed and published.

Some of his more influential works are

• 1912: La socialització de la terra
• 1934: Socialisme
• 1944: Reflexions sobre el demà de Catalunya (edited in Xile)
• 1957: Crida a la joventut catalana (edited in París)
• 1957: Ciutadania catalana. Breviari de cogitacions, remarques i orientacions per als catalans (edited in Buenos Aires)

He also wrote economics books, amongst which:

• 1942: La reconstrucción económica de España. Ensayo especulativo sobre un futuro posible (Edited in Buenos Aires)
• 1944: Diccionario económico de nuestro tiempo. Científico – teórico – estadístico – comercial – jurídico - sociolóico (Edited in Buenos Aires)
• 1944: Geografía económica (Edited in Buenos Aires)

References

• Parliament of Catalonia Biography (in catalan)
• Manuel Serra i Moret (Vic, 1884 - Perpinyà, 1963). Miquel-Àngel Velasco Martín. Edited by: Patronat d'estudis Osonencs. 2009. (in catalan)

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