Partit per la Independència
Party for Independence Partit per la Independència | |
|---|---|
| President | Àngel Colom i Colom |
| Secretary-General | Benet Tugues i Boliart |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| Split from | Republican Left of Catalonia |
| Merged into | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia |
| Ideology | Catalan independence |
Partit per la Independència (PI; Catalan pronunciation: [pəɾˈtit pəɾ lə indəpənˈdɛnsiə]) was a short lived political party in Catalonia of the 1990s that campaigned for independence for Catalonia from Spain. It was created by Àngel Colom and Pilar Rahola in 1996[1] as a schism from Republican Left of Catalonia, another independentist party.[2][3] After the meager electoral results in municipal elections in 1999, particularly in Barcelona city where Rahola was candidate, Partit per la Independència was dissolved.[4] Afterwards, Colom and most of the party direction integrated into Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya. Joan Laporta, later president of Futbol Club Barcelona, was member of PI.
References
- ^ Anuaris.cat, El congrés fundacional del Partit per la Independència Archived 2010-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Company, Enric (9 October 1996). "Colom y Rahola se escinden de ERC para crear un nuevo partido independentista". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ "Colom planeaba desde mayo montar su propio partido, según dirigentes del partido". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. 9 October 1996. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ "El partido de Pilar Rahola se disuelve tras su sonoro fracaso en las municipales". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. 6 September 1999. Retrieved 18 November 2025.