José Antonio González i Casanova

[4][2] Alfonso Guerra, then deputy, told him in one of the sessions of the report that drafted that document that "Gregorio Peces-Barba is in complete agreement with your opinions and will take them into account, especially in the autonomic system".

[4] González was appointed member of the Council of Statutory Guarantees of Catalonia [es] in 1981, a position he held until 2001 when he was succeeded by Pere Jover.

[8][9] In 1983, the PSOE nominated González as a candidate for judge in the Constitutional Court[10] in the first stage of the body's activity, but Manuel Fraga's People's Party (PP) rejected him for being too "autonomist".

[13] In 2015, he criticized the 2010 Constitutional Court ruling on the new Catalan Statute, saying that "they have led to close the doors of dialogue between the Spanish State and Catalonia".

[14] He married Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier, the first female rector of a Catalan university who died in 2010 following a long illness.