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

Biography

Born in 1943 in

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, he is son of Narcís de Carreras, who was personal secretary of

Francesc Cambó Francesc Cambó i Batlle (; 2 September 1876 – 30 April 1947) was a conservative Spanish politician from Catalonia, founder and leader of the autonomist party ''Lliga Regionalista''. He was a minister in several Spanish governments. He supported ...

and who would later become President of

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(1968–1969) and President of

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. He became a member of the clandestine

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(PSUC) in 1967. He left the PSUC in 1986 over concerns the party line was drifting towards Nationalist stances. He was a prominent member of the Foro Babel, a civil forum created to denounce the

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enforced by the Catalan regional governments presided by

Jordi Pujol Jordi Pujol Soley (, born 9 June 1930) is a Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003. Early life Pujol was ...

. 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 Citizens ( es, link=no, Ciudadanos ; ca, link=no, Ciutadans ; eu, link=no, Hiritarrak; gl, link=no, Cidadáns; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía'') ...

(Cs), party of which Carreras has been referred as one of its "leading ideologists". Tenured professor in possession of a Chair in Constitutional Law at the

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(UAB), he retired in September 2013. Elected as numerary member of the

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in January 2015, he took possession of the medal number 27 on 15 November 2016, covering the vacant left by

Manuel Jiménez de Parga Manuel Jiménez de Parga y Cabrera (9 April 1929 – 7 May 2014) was a Spanish lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Spain between 2001 and 2004. He was professor in charge of the department of political ...

(his PhD thesis supervisor), reading a speech titled ''Ensayos sobre el federalismo'' ("Essays about the Federalism"). 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". 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.

Decorations

* Great Cross of the

Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafort The Order of the Cross of St. Raymond of Peñafort ( es, Orden de la Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort) is a Spanish civil order of merit. Established 23 January 1944, the five classes recognize service to and contributions toward the developmen ...

(2017):

Notes

References

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