Bargalló returned to politics in June 2018 when he was appointed Minister of Education of Catalonia for a second time.

[3] Bargalló started working as a teacher in 1981 and was headteacher of Pons d’Icart Secondary School in Tarragona from 1985 to 1987.

[1][2] Since 2011 he has been vice-president of the Josep Irla Foundation graduate course in Catalan philology at UB and co-ordinator of the Institute of Educational Sciences at URV.

[3][5] Bargalló is a member of the Societat Catalana de Llengua i Literatura, part of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

[14][15][16] However, after the election leftist parties formed a government led by Pasqual Maragall and in December 2003 Bargalló was appointed Minister of Education.

[17][18] He was appointed Chief Advisor (re-designated First Minister in March 2005) in February 2014 following the resignation of Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira.

[5] On 19 May 2018 newly elected President of Catalonia Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Bargalló was to be Minister of Education.