Tarradellas i Joan, Josep

Tarradellas i Joan, Josep

▪ Catalan politician
born Feb. 19, 1899, Cervelló, Spain
died June 10, 1988, Barcelona, Spain

      Catalan political leader who led the struggle for an autonomous Catalonia as head of the Catalan government-in-exile (1939–77) and as interim president (1977–80).

      Tarradellas joined the campaign for Catalan autonomy in 1916 and entered the Generalitat (regional parliament) in 1931. During the Spanish Civil War he held several posts in the Catalan government, including minister of finance (1936) and prime minister (1936–37). After General Francisco Franco captured Barcelona and abolished Catalan regional autonomy (1939), Tarradellas established a government-in-exile, based alternately in France, Switzerland, and Mexico, where he was elected president of his government by the surviving deputies of the Generalitat (1954).

      After Franco's death (1975), Tarradellas refused to return to Spain from his headquarters in France until King Juan Carlos assured him that Catalan autonomy would be forthcoming. On his return to Barcelona in 1977, Tarradellas was named president of the reestablished Catalan Generalitat, and in 1979 Catalonia was granted full constitutional autonomy within a unified Spain. He retired from politics in 1980.

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