Members of the university community, family and representatives of the Valencian politics led by the President of the Valencian Government Ximo Puig, the Principal of the Universitat de València Esteban Morcillo and Manuel Broseta’s son, Pablo Broseta, participated on Monday 15 November 2018 in the homage to Manuel Broseta on the anniversary of his assassination.
It took place in the same place where Broseta was murdered by ETA terrorists. The participants highlighted the figure of the professor of Commercial Law at the Universitat de València and have joined the offering of flowers at the commemorative monument, an identical column to those located at the Cloister of the historical building of La Nau.
Manuel Broseta Pont was born in Banyeres de Mariola in 1932 and he was murdered on the 15th of January, 1992. He studied A-Levels at Lluís Vives Secondary School in Valencia. Then, he studied Law at the Universitat de Valencia and he got his degree in 1955. Broseta actively participated in university life. He was dean of the Faculty of Law and he was processed and absolved by the Francoist Public Order Court due to his press articles. He resign as dean in 1972 as an act of protest when the Ministry of Education attempted to purge three hundred professors and over a thousand Spanish university students. In 1973, he was the first person to sign a chair in Valencian Language and Culture at the Universitat de València.
Manuel Broseta got a chair in Commercial Law at the Universitat de València and worked as a lawyer. Among other charges, he was a member of the Spanish Council of State. His political career took off opposing Francoism and he headed the Junta Democrática del País Valenciano.
Afterwards, he joined the Mesa de Fuerzas Políticas y Sindicales del País Valenciano. He was elected senator as part of the UCD list for Valencia in the 1979 elections. He left his political career in 1982 and worked exclusively as a lawyer in his law firm and as a professor at the Universitat de València. In 1991 he assumed the presidency of the Culture Council of the City of Valencia. Among his work, his 1971 Commercial Law Manual should be outlined.
