Our protagonist was born in Palma de Mallorca in . He owned a flour warehouse. During the reign of Isabel II he would be the leader of the democrats in the Balearic Islands. In he created the Republican Instruction Centerbauzaa in Palma beginning to spread republican ideas in the Balearic Islands. With the Democratic Party he managed to be elected councilor of the Palma City Council . In this responsibility he tried to redeem in cash the fifth who had to do military service. In already in the Progressive Biennium he collaborated with the newspaper “ El Iris del Pueblo ” a fundamental publication in the history of Balearic republicanism.
At the end of the Biennium he had to go underground although he maintained a kind of democratic society. He returned to the political front line along with Joaquim Fiol i Pujol in the Glorious Revolution of since he would be part of the Revolutionary Junta . He CXB Directory went on to direct El Iris del Pueblo and chair the Balearic Committee of the Republican Party. He was also head of the Citizen Militia of Palma de Mallorca. In the Cortes of he presented himself as a candidate for the Federal Democratic Republican Party but did not obtain enough votes to be elected deputy. But he did manage to be a provincial deputy in . He was also part of the Palma First Education Board.
Quetglas distinguished himself not only for his defense of republican ideas and federalism but also for his commitment to secularism. In this sense in he wrote The Religious Question and furthermore his burial was the first of a secular nature in Palma de Mallorca in the month of February . In February with the Republic already proclaimed the Palma City Council organized a manifestation in his memory. The federal republicans agreed to erect a monument in his honor in the cemetery but the Church flatly refused already at the time of the Serrano Dictatorship. Today it has a street in his honor.
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