Miguel Roca Junyent
| Miquel Roca i Junyent | |
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| Councillor of Barcelona | |
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In office 15 June 1995 – 13 June 1999 |
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| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 15 June 1977 – 31 January 1995 |
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| Constituency | Barcelona |
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April 20, 1940 Bordeaux, France |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Catalan European Democratic Party |
Miquel Roca i Junyent (Bordeaux, France, 20 April 1940) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Democratic Convergence of Catalonia. He is one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain.
He was born in Bordeaux as his father, Juan Bautista Roca Caball, was forced into exile due to his advocacy of Catalan nationalism. In his youth, he joined forces with other future Catalan politicians, such as Narcís Serra and Pasqual Maragall, in the Front Obrer de Catalunya, an illegal left-wing organization made up mostly by university students linked to the Popular Liberation Front (FELIPE).
Later in his life, he turned to liberal ideas. He was a founding member of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia in 1974, where he served as the adjunct to the Secretary-General. He was elected to the first democratic parliament after the Francoist dictatorship for the district of Barcelona, where he held his seat from 1977 to 1995 in representation of Convergence and Union. He soon became the leader and speaker of the Catalan Minority in Congress.
From 1982 to 1995, he represented the Generalitat, Catalonia’s devolved regional administration, in the Committee for Bilateral Co-operation with the Spanish government. During this period, he failed in his attempt to create a centrist party to act as a counterweight between the conservative People’s Alliance and the social-democratic PSOE, a plan known as Operation Roca.
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