Les Corts republicanes a Sant Cugat del Vallès: l'activitat parlamentària en el camí cap a l'exili

Abstract

The coup of 1936 changed the social, economic and political life of the Second Republic, governed by the Popular Front according to the electoral result of that month of February. This work will deal with different normative and political questions derived from this fact: the existence of a duality of legal systems, with a normative reality differentiated in the territory according to who occupied it: the rebel army or the Government of the Republic. Before the advance of the rebel troops, the Government and the Republican Courts changed their headquarters: from Madrid to Valencia and from there to Barcelona, where they held different plenary sessions of the Congress of Deputies, including at the Monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès, then Pins del Vallès, on September 30, 1938. This paper will analyse what was said in that session and what were the most relevant elements of debate, including a conflict of jurisdiction between the Spanish and Catalan governments which made resign the ERC minister, Jaume Aiguadé, and the PNB minister Manuel de Irujo.