Editing Francesc Macià (section)

===Republic and Generalitat===
{{Main|Catalan Republic (1931)|Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)}}
[[File:Proclamació Segona República Francesc Macià. Amadeu Aragay. 14 abril 1931.jpg|right|thumb|Francesc Macià proclaiming the Catalan Republic in [[Plaça de Sant Jaume]], Barcelona, 14 April 1931]]
In March 1931 Estat Català joined the Catalan Republican Party of [[Lluís Companys]] and the L'Opinió Group of [[Joan Lluhí]] to found a new party, [[Republican Left of Catalonia]] (''Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya'', ERC), maintaining Estat Català a degree of internal autonomy. Francesc Macià became the leader figure of the new party.

On 14 April 1931, two days after the [[Spanish local elections, 1931|Spanish local elections]] that caused the exile of king [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]] and gave the local majority to the [[Republican Left of Catalonia]], and a few hours before the proclamation of the [[Second Spanish Republic]] in Madrid, from the balcony of the [[Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya|Palau de la Generalitat]] (then the seat of the [[Provincial Deputation of Barcelona]]), Macià proclaimed the "[[Catalan Republic (1931)|Catalan Republic]], expecting that the other peoples of Spain constitute themselves as republics, in order to establish the Iberian Confederation". Macià was appointed as acting president of Catalonia. Three days later, the government of the new Spanish Republic sent three ministers ([[Fernando de los Ríos]], Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer and Marcel·lí Domingo) to Barcelona to negotiate with Macià and the Catalan provisional government. Macià reached an agreement with the ministers, in which the Catalan Republic was renamed [[Generalitat of Catalonia]], becoming an [[Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)|autonomous government within the Spanish Republic]]. Macià remained as acting President of the Generalitat. The main task of the provisional Generalitat was to draft an [[Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932|statute of autonomy for Catalonia]], approved by the Spanish Congress after many modifications and discussions on 9 September 1932.

After the [[Catalan regional election, 1932|first Catalan parliamentary election]] on 20 November 1932 when, after a landslide victory of ERC, he was officially appointed President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, maintaining the position until his death in December 1933.