Catalan autonomous institutions payed tribute to "The Grandfather". He was the 122nd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia. As the present President he was in exile in Brussels being prosecuted by a Spanish authoritarian government. Ministers Josep Rull and Jordi Turull visited Macia's tomb and read a message of the present Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont. Catalonia's Parliament President, Carme Forcadell, payed tribute to the founder of the first pro independence party, Estat Català (Catalan State), too.
"We live a state of persecution to legitimate, democratic and non-violent ideas. "We are the continuators of a long chain of efforts and sacrifices", as Macià did in defense of the Catalan institutions, and recalled that his predecessor always asked Catalans to become worthy of Catalonia", said Puigdemont.
Macià died just 84 years ago after a life of "courage, honesty, firmness and fidelity in Catalonia" that has earned since then the most beloved memory, he said, because it allowed the modernization of the Generalitat, created the year 1359.
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