He is a social democrat politician, and spent more than twenty years dedicated to politics on the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party.

In his second local mandate he is named Control and Monitoring Deputy Mayor, as well as Representative in the Metropolitan Community of Municipalities, at the beginning of 1999.

At the end of the same year, he is elected Member of the Parliament of Catalonia, position that he holds until the 2010, including the interval on the Catalan Government.

In 2007 he publishes a book entitled Disculpin les molèsties,[1][2] in which he explains "the best kept secrets of his party", Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and of the Catalan left government that ruled Catalonia from 2003 to the end of the 2010, through a personal point of view.

When he entered the political sector, he combined party responsibilities with management of the transport enterprise Amunt i Avall, until the mid-1990s.