Joan Roca i Caball staged in 1976 and passed away shortly afterward due to pulmonary edema. Joan Roca i Caball Joan Baptista Roca i Caball (1898–1976) was a Catalan Carlist and Christian-Democratic politician. He is known as co-founder of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya and recognized as representative of a "Third Spain", the group which emerged during the Spanish Civil War and claimed to have stood in-between the warring factions. He is also counted among leaders of the Catalan opposition to Francoism. The Roca family has traditionally owned vineyards in the Barcelona province; heavily hit by the phylloxera plague in the mid-19th century, it was
People's Liberation Movement (Montserrat) which the party lost all four seats. In 1996 the party was dissolved and replaced by the People's Progressive Alliance. In 2001 the PPA merged with the Movement for National Reconstruction to form the New People's Liberation Movement. People's Liberation Movement (Montserrat) The People's Liberation Movement (PLM) was a political party in Montserrat. The PLM was established by John Osborne in 1973. In the 1978 elections it won all seven seats in the Legislative Council, with Osborne becoming Chief Minister. The party also won the 1983 elections, claiming five of the seven seats. In the 1987 elections it was reduced