The initiative was promoted by Josep Maria Junoy and Josep Maria Capdevila, among others, who in October 1928 launched a manifesto for the creation of an "independent, Catalan, and Catholic daily newspaper.
"[4][5] As a result of a manifesto published by the newspaper, the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) was founded in 1931,[6] and El Matí became its official mouthpiece.
Many of its editors were members of this party and the Federació de Joves Cristians de Catalunya, including the newspaper’s directors Jaume Ruiz Manent and Fèlix Millet, and contributors such as Joaquim Civera, Mauricio Serrahima, Magí Valls, Lluís Jorda, J. M. Ràfols, J. M. Salvay, and Narcís de Carreras, among others.
[3] With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, it was seized by the Republican authorities, and its printing facilities were handed over to the newly created Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), which used them to publish its newspaper, Treball.
Following the Francoist conquest of Barcelona in 1939, its facilities were confiscated by FET y de las JONS.