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Family, university community members, and representatives of Valencian politics, led by the president of the Generalitat, took part in the tribute commemorating the date of his assassination on Monday, 15 January.
The event, held in the same place where the ETA terrorist group murdered the full-time university professor of Mercantile Law at the Universitat de València, included the traditional wreath laying at the memorial monument, consisting of a column identical to those in the Senate of the historic building of La Nave, located in front of number 21 of Avenida Blasco Ibáñez in Valencia.
The tribute included speeches by Pablo Broseta, son of the honoree; Carlos Mazón, president of the Generalitat; and Ximo Puig, former president of the Generalitat. They were accompanied by a large number of representatives of the Valencian politics, familiy, and members of the university community.
Manuel Broseta Pont
He was born in Banyeres de Mariola in 1932, and was murdered on 15 January 1992. He studied at Lluís Vives Secondary School in Valencia, and later studied Law at Universitat de València, where he graduated in 1955. Broseta took an active part in university life. He was dean of the Faculty of Law, and he was prosecuted and absolved by the Court of Public Order due to his press articles. He resigned as dean in 1972 in protest against the Spanish Ministry of Education’s attempt to purge more than three hundred professors and more than one thousand Spanish university students for political reasons. In 1973 he was the first signatory of the request for a chair of Valencian Language and Culture at the Universitat de València.
Manuel Broseta obtained the chair of Mercantile Law at the Universitat de València, and practised as a lawyer. Among other positions, he was a member of the Council of State. His political trajectory began in the fight against Franco's regime, and he chaired the Democratic Board of the Valencian Country.
He later became member of the Board of Political and Union Forces of the Valencian Country. He was elected senator on the UCD lists for Valencia in the 1979 elections. He left active politics in 1982 and devoted himself exclusively to his professional practice and teaching at the Universitat de València. He assumed the presidency of the Valencian Council of Culture in 1991. His works include a Mercantile Law’s Manual (Manual de Derecho Mercantil, 1971).
