Francesc de Carreras explained

Francesc de Carreras Serra (born 1943) is a Spanish jurist.

Biography

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.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]} party of which Carreras has been referred as one of its "leading ideologists".^[7]

Tenured professor in possession of a Chair in Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), he retired in September 2013.^[8] Elected as numerary member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in January 2015,^[9] 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").^{[10] [11]}

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".^{[12] [13]}

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.^[14]

Decorations

• Great Cross of the Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafort (2017)^[15]

Notes and References

1. Juan. Avilés. Paciencia e independencia. La agenda oculta del nacionalismo. El Cultural. 6 June 2014.
2. Francesc de Carreras: De miembro del PSUC a azote del nacionalismo. El Periódico. 23 March 2010.
3. 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.
4. La controvertida historia de Babel. El País. 14 April 1999. Enric. Company.
5. Intelectuales catalanes promueven un partido antinacionalista. El País. 8 June 2005. Enric. Company.
6. El Español. Los padres intelectuales de C's se aferran al antinacionalismo pero se dividen en la socialdemocracia. Jorge. Sáinz. Daniel. Ramírez. 1 February 2017.
7. Uno de los ideólogos de Cs equipara el feminismo al nacionalismo catalán por su "carácter dogmático y fundamentalista". Público. 9 May 2018.
8. Web site: Francesc de Carreras. Colegio Libre de Eméritos.
9. El País. Francesc de Carreras, elegido académico de Ciencias Políticas. 21 January 2015 .
10. De Carreras, Académico de Ciencias Morales. https://web.archive.org/web/20190624054048/https://www.iustel.com/diario_del_derecho/noticia.asp?ref_iustel=1159482. dead. 24 June 2019. 16 November 2016.
11. Web site: Ingreso del académico D. Francesc de Carreras Serra. Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas.
12. Crece la presión interna para que Albert Rivera frene el giro a la derecha de Ciudadanos. El Mundo. 17 June 2017. Luis Ángel. Sanz.
13. La semana 'horribilis' de Albert Rivera: de "adolescente caprichoso" a desmentido por Macron. El Español. Cristian. Campos. 23 June 2019.
14. News: Francesc de Carreras: "Ciudadanos ha evolucionado hacia un nacionalismo español contrario a su ideario". Blas. Elsa García de. 2019-07-19. El País. 2019-07-19. es. 1134-6582.

15. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 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. 0212-033X. 2 December 2017. 293. 117333.