For the reformist sectors of the Franco regime, the monarchy established by General Franco was a red line that could not be crossed. Regardless of popular will, the king was an indisputable institution, guaranteeing the continuity of the system and its servants, and also allowing for a controlled transition. A referendum on the form of government was impossible, but not only that: everything that represented the image, value, and symbol of the Republic, such as the tricolor flag, was persecuted for several years. The struggle continued beyond the approval of the 1978 Constitution, beyond the years of institutional and political transition.

130 years ago, the Olot railway in Girona inaugurated the first section of the planned route to connect Girona with the capital of the Garrotxa region. This initial section ran between Salt and Amer. The line to Olot wasn't completed until 1911. The concession had been granted, by order of April 18, 1883, to Domènec Puigoriol Fabregat (Vilagrassa, 1834 - Girona, 1889), a man from Urgell, after a meeting was held on the railway. The concession passed from one promoter to another without the necessary capital being secured to make the project a reality. Puigoriol only appeared at the very beginning, during a bureaucratic process. The concession was transferred, in the same year, 1883, to the Compañía Española de Ferrocarriles Económicos (Spanish Company of Economic Railways), based in Barcelona and represented by Eduard Martínez Suñer.

In view of the more or less imminent appointment of a new bishop for the diocese of Girona, the Fòrum Alsina has recalled that, in the Spanish state, we come from a tradition of many years, and under different regimes, of appointing bishops in order to denaturalise our country.