Francesc de Carreras Serra (born 1943) is a Spanish jurist.
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Biography edit
Born in 1943 in Barcelona,[1] he is son of Narcís de Carreras, who was personal secretary of Francesc Cambó and who would later become President of FC Barcelona (1968–1969) and President of La Caixa.[2] He became a member of the clandestine Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in 1967.[2]
He left the PSUC in 1986 over concerns the party line was drifting towards Nationalist stances.[3]
He was a prominent member of the Foro Babel, a civil forum created to denounce the language policy enforced by the Catalan regional governments presided by Jordi Pujol.[4] In June 2005, he took part in the "For a new political party in Catalonia" manifesto that would pave the way for the later foundation of Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs),[5][6][n. 1] party of which Carreras has been referred as one of its "leading ideologists".[8]
Tenured professor in possession of a Chair in Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), he retired in September 2013.[9] Elected as numerary member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in January 2015,[10] he took possession of the medal number 27 on 15 November 2016, covering the vacant left by Manuel Jiménez de Parga (his PhD thesis supervisor), reading a speech titled Ensayos sobre el federalismo ("Essays about the Federalism").[11][12]
Carreras has been a critic of the rightwing drift of Cs driven by party leader Albert Rivera (his former pupil), warning in 2019 that the later would be "putting alleged party interests ahead of the interests of Spain" and that Rivera had turned into a "capricious teenager".[13][14]
In July 2019, Carreras, one of the party's founders, announced that he had left the party due to its stances against the PSOE and in favor of alliances with the far-right.[15]
Decorations edit
- Great Cross of the Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafort (2017)[16]
Notes edit
- ^ Carreras directed some of the unfinished postgraduate courses the party leader Albert Rivera took at the UAB.[7]
References edit
- ^ Avilés, Juan (6 June 2014). "Paciencia e independencia. La agenda oculta del nacionalismo". El Cultural.
- ^ a b "Francesc de Carreras: De miembro del PSUC a azote del nacionalismo". El Periódico. 23 March 2010.
- ^ "ABC entrega los Premios Mariano de Cavia, Luca de Tena y Mingote a Francesc de Carreras, Victoria Prego y Juan Manuel Serrano". ABC. 13 December 2016.
- ^ Company, Enric (14 April 1999). "La controvertida historia de Babel". El País.
- ^ Company, Enric (8 June 2005). "Intelectuales catalanes promueven un partido antinacionalista". El País.
- ^ Sáinz, Jorge; Ramírez, Daniel (1 February 2017). "Los padres intelectuales de C's se aferran al antinacionalismo pero se dividen en la socialdemocracia". El Español.
- ^ Alonso, Mariano (21 February 2015). "Los nueve hombres de Albert Rivera". Libertad Digital.
- ^ "Uno de los ideólogos de Cs equipara el feminismo al nacionalismo catalán por su "carácter dogmático y fundamentalista"". Público. 9 May 2018.
- ^ "Francesc de Carreras". Colegio Libre de Eméritos.
- ^ "Francesc de Carreras, elegido académico de Ciencias Políticas". El País. 21 January 2015.
- ^ "De Carreras, Académico de Ciencias Morales". 16 November 2016. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Ingreso del académico D. Francesc de Carreras Serra". Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas.
- ^ Sanz, Luis Ángel (17 June 2017). "Crece la presión interna para que Albert Rivera frene el giro a la derecha de Ciudadanos". El Mundo.
- ^ Campos, Cristian (23 June 2019). "La semana 'horribilis' de Albert Rivera: de "adolescente caprichoso" a desmentido por Macron". El Español.
- ^ Blas, Elsa García de (2019-07-19). "Francesc de Carreras: "Ciudadanos ha evolucionado hacia un nacionalismo español contrario a su ideario"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ Ministerio de Justicia: "Real Decreto 1017/2017, de 1 de diciembre, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort a don Francesc de Carreras Serra" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (293): 117333. 2 December 2017. ISSN 0212-033X.