People's Party of Catalonia (1973)

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People's Party of Catalonia
Partit Popular de Catalunya
Secretary-GeneralJoan Colomines i Puig
Founded1973 (1973)
Dissolved1 November 1976 (1976-11-01)
Split from National Front of Catalonia
Merged into Socialist Party of Catalonia–Congress
NewspaperNova Catalunya
Ideology Democratic socialism
Catalan nationalism
Antifascism
Workers' self-management [1]
Political position Left-wing

People's Party of Catalonia (in Catalan: Partit Popular de Catalunya, PPC) was a political party in Catalonia, Spain. PPC was founded in 1973 as from a split of the National Front of Catalonia (FNC).

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Its secretary general was Joan Colomines i Puig. The party participated in the unitary organizations of the antifascist opposition in Catalonia, specially the Assembly of Catalonia. The first congress, and legal public act, of the party was celebrated in March 1976 in Barcelona.

In 1976 CSC merged with other groups and parties to form the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Congress. [2]

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