It was known as Operation Roca after its leader, Miquel Roca, a prominent figure in Catalan politics. And it was a failed attempt to revive a centrist party, after the disappearance of Unió de Centre Democràtic (UCD). Forty years ago, in June 1986, the Reformist Party ran in the general elections, with the participation of Unió Mallorquina (UM) and Unió Democràtica de Menorca (UDM) in the Balearic Islands, on that strange platform where the main leader did not even run under the common acronyms, but under those of Convergència i Unió, in Catalonia. Its failure is probably explained because no one understood this.