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Isidre Molas i Batllori
5th President of the PSC
Incumbent
Assumed office  July 19, 2008
Preceded by	José Montilla Aguilera (acting)
Senator from Barcelona
Incumbent
Assumed office  April 5, 2000
Born	October 12, 1940 (1940-10-12) (age 69) Barcelona, Catalonia
Political party	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (ECP)
Occupation	Politician, historian

Isidre Molas i Batllori (born October 12, 1940 in Barcelona) has been the 5^th President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia since July 19, 2008. He is Senator from Barcelona since April 5, 2000. He's a Catalan politician and historian.

Contents 1 Early years 2 Beginnings in politics 3 Recent years 4 Publications

[edit] Early years

He was born in Barcelona in 1940. His father was a musician, Isidre Molas i Font, and he is the brother of the historian and writer, Joaquim Molas i Batllori. In 1963, he was licentiated in law in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was an active member of the Front Obrer de Catalunya (Workers' Front of Catalonia) and joined the left-wing anti-Franco movement Frente de Liberación Popular (Popular Liberation Front). In 1962 he was judged and condemnated by a military court.

[edit] Beginnings in politics

In the first democratic elections in Catalonia after Franco he was elected deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia to 1988. From 1985 to 2008, he was the President of the Federation of the PSC in the Province of Barcelona.

[edit] Recent years

In 2000, he was elected Senator from Barcelona by the Catalan Agreement of Progress (a union of a left-wing catalanist parties).

He was translated books, and he published articles from political science.

[edit] Publications

• Ideari de Francesc Pi i Margall (1965)
• Lliga Catalana. Un estudi d'estasiologia (1972)
• El sistema de partits polítics a Catalunya. 1931-1936 (1972)
• El catalanismo hegemónico: Cambó y el Centro Constitucional (1975)
• Salvador Seguí: Escrits (1975)
• Els partits polítics
• Comentaris jurídics de l'Estatut de Catalunya (1982)
• La ciutat llunyana (1981)
• Diccionari dels partits polítics a Catalunya (2000)

Party political offices
Preceded by José Montilla Aguilera (Acting)	President of PSC 2008– present	Succeeded by Incumbent

v • d • e PSC Presidents Joan Reventós i Carner · Raimon Obiols i Germà · Pasqual Maragall i Mira · José Montilla · Isidre Molas i Batllori