Marià Pere i Lizàndara

Marià Pere i Lizàndara (born November 2, 1945 in Barcelona ) is a Catalan politician and architect.

Marià Pere studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and combined his studies in the Architecture and Urban Planning Workshop (TAU). In 1966 he joined the PSUC , from where he actively participated in the anti-French and democratic struggle.

His participation in the Caputxinada and in the creation of the first democratic union of Catalan universities, the SDEUB (Student Union of the University of Barcelona). Over the years he has held senior positions in the PSUC in Lleida and Barcelona. In the late 1970s he was appointed a member of the PSUC Central Committee. In the crisis that rocked the party after the 5th Congress, Mariano Pedro was expelled from the PSUC in 1981 with Pere Ardiaca and Juan Ramos Camarero. With them he founded the Communist Party of Catalonia (PCC) in 1982, which assumed responsibility for the Commission of Institutions and was a member of both the Executive Committee and the Central Committee of the PCC. He was part of the large delegation of the PCC that helped found the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (of which he would be a member of the leadership for years) to the Congress of Communist Unity in Madrid. In 1987 he was appointed general secretary of the PCC at the VIII Communist Congress after Juan Ramos Camarero took office. He was part of the initiative for the Catalan coalition, with which he was elected in 1988 together with Celestino Andrés Sánchez Ramos as a member of the elections to the Catalan Parliament. Both went into the mixed group on April 18, 1989. When Ramos ended his tenure in 1992, he decided not to run for new elections and combined his work as an architect with the work of the secretary general of the PCC and the militancy in the United Left Alternative.

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• Diputados del Parlamento de Cataluña en la III Legislatura page 147 (PDF) p. 106