Manuel de Irujo Ollo, ministro del Gobierno de la República ; (1936-1938)

RAGUER, Hilari

Publication year:

2002

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Manuel de Irujo Ollo entered the government of the Republic, as minister without portfolio, in representation of the Basque Nationalist Party, on 25th September 1936. On 18th May 1937 he became Minister of Justice and on 10th December 1937 he once again became minister without portfolio, until 17th August 1938, when he left the government for good. In all this time, but especially when he was Minister of Justice, he worked effectively for the re-establishment of legal normality and to save people who had wrongfully been placed in danger, especially priests and religious people. His efforts were directed towards the re-establishment of public religious services, which he was unable to achieve because of the opposition of the ecclesiastic authority of Barcelona, P. Josep M. Torrent.