Rosa Maria Carrasco i Azemar

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In this
Catalan name, the first or paternal surname
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Rosa Maria Carrasco
Personal details
Born(1936-07-02)July 2, 1936
Barcelona, Spain
DiedAugust 6, 2018(2018-08-06) (aged 82)
Barcelona, Spain
Political partyDemocratic Union of Catalonia
Democrats of Catalonia
Parent
RelativesRaimon Carrasco (brother)
EducationLycée Français de Barcelone
OccupationPolitician
AwardsCreu de Sant Jordi (2012)

Rosa Maria Carrasco i Azemar (2 July 1936 – 6 August 2018) was a Spanish politician from Catalonia, one of the founders of the Democrats of Catalonia party.[1][2]

Biography

She was the daughter of the historical leader of

Second Republic.[3] Pertaining in Unió Democrática de Catalunya (UDC), he stressed for his defense of the Catholic Church and was sentenced to death after a summary trial despite pressure from the Vatican.[4]

After studying at the French Lyceum in Barcelona, she joined the "scouting movement" of Catalonia and, following in her father's footsteps, she joined UCD's Christianist Catalanism. She was international curator of the Brotherhood of Girl Guides until in 1962 the Guides of St. George were separated, of which she was general commissioner until 1977, when they merged with the Minyons Scouts to found the Minyons Scouts and Guides of Sant Jordi. From 1971 to 1977, she was secretary general of the International Catholic Conference of Girl Guides and from 1978 to 1987, a liaison for Europe of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.[5]

With the return of the historical leader

Josep Antoni Duran Lleida. In 2015, when the schism in Unió was a fact, she left the party and joined the separatist split. At that time she founded Demòcrates de Catalunya to defend the best possible way the political legacy of his father.[6] She received the highest order of Catalonia, the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2012.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Muere Rosa M. Carrasco, hija de un histórico de UDC y fundadora de Demòcrates (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Muere a los 82 años Rosa Maria Carrasco, hija de Carrasco i Formiguera (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Demòcrates homenatja Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera avui que fa vuitanta anys que el van afusellar (in Catalan)
  4. ^ Los dos hijos vivos de Carrasco i Formiguera cierran la lista de CiU (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Rosa Maria Carrasco rep una Creu de Sant Jordi (in Catalan)
  6. ^ Demòcrates mostra el seu dolor i condol pel traspàs de l’estimada Rosa Maria Carrasco fundadora de la formació demòcrata (in Catalan)
  7. ^ El Govern distingeix 25 personalitats i 15 entitats amb la Creu de Sant Jordi (in Catalan)
  8. ^ Rosa Maria Carrasco, la dona que va representar Catalunya al món durant la Transició, rep una Creu Sant Jordi (in Catalan)
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