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
Progressive Democratic Party (Montserrat) the MLP had faced serious opposition, and saw the PDP win all seven seats, leaving the MLP without parliamentary representation. Percival Austin Bramble became Chief Minister. The PDP subsequently won five of the seven seats in the 1973 elections, but were defeated in the 1978 elections, when the People's Liberation Movement formed by former PDP minister John Osborne won all seven seats. The PDP contested the 1983 elections, winning two seats in the Legislative Council. It was reduced to one seat in the 1987 elections, and did not contest any further elections. Progressive Democratic Party (Montserrat) The Progressive Democratic Party