Isidre Molas i Batllori

Isidre Molas i Batllori (born October 12, 1940 in Barcelona) is a Catalan politician and historian. He has been the fifth President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia since July 19, 2008. He has been a Senator from Barcelona since April 5, 2000.

Early years

He was born in Barcelona in 1940. His father was a musician, Isidre Molas i Font, and he is the brother of the historian and writer, Joaquim Molas i Batllori. In 1963, he graduated in law in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was an active member of the Front Obrer de Catalunya (Workers' Front of Catalonia) and joined the left-wing anti-Franco movement Frente de Liberación Popular (Popular Liberation Front). In 1962 he was judged and condemnated by a military court.

Beginnings in politics

In the first democratic elections in Catalonia after Franco he was elected deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia serving until 1988. From 1985 to 2008, he was the President of the Federation of the PSC in the Province of Barcelona.

Recent years

In 2000, he was elected Senator from Barcelona by the Catalan Agreement of Progress (a union of a left-wing catalanist parties).

He was translated books, and he published articles from political science.

Publications

• Ideari de Francesc Pi i Margall (1965)
• Lliga Catalana. Un estudi d'estasiologia (1972)
• El sistema de partits polítics a Catalunya. 1931–1936 (1972)
• El catalanismo hegemónico: Cambó y el Centro Constitucional (1975)
• Salvador Seguí: Escrits (1975)
• Els partits polítics
• Comentaris jurídics de l'Estatut de Catalunya (1982)
• La ciutat llunyana (1981)
• Diccionari dels partits polítics a Catalunya (2000)

References

• "MOLAS I BATLLORI, ISIDRE" (in Spanish). senado.es. http://www.senado.es/solotexto/legis8/senadores/217.html. Retrieved July 31, 2010. 
• "Isidre Molas Batllori / Qui és qui / Directorio / El Partido / Inicio – PSC" (in Spanish). socialistes.cat. http://www.socialistes.cat/psc_esl/El-Partit/Directori/Qui-es-qui/Isidre-Molas-Batllori. Retrieved July 31, 2010.