He was the mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat from 1994 till 2008, and Vicepresident and then President of the Diputación de Barcelona.
He became town councillor in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat for the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in the first democratic local elections in 1979, where he participated in the formation of the government, and remained a councillor until 1991.
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In the beginning, he was devoted to the trade union and the neighbourhood: he enrolled into the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) in 1973, while he was working for the electrics company FECSA, and cofounded the La Florida Neighbourhood Association, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1974.
The Swedish painter and former anarchist, later convert to Islam, Abd al-Hādī 'Aqīlī, formerly known as Ivan Aguéli, died there, being killed by a train, in 1917.
Torres Europa (Torre Europa 1 to 5), complex of skyscrapers in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, suburb of Barcelona
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Sant Feliu de Llobregat | El Prat de Llobregat | Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant | L'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre | curse tablet from L'Hospitalet-du-Larzac | CE L'Hospitalet | Almeda, Cornellà de Llobregat |
L'Hospitalet is located immediately to the west of Barcelona's Sants-Montjuïc and Les Corts districts, meaning transit between the two cities is quite straightforward, even though it was not fully implemented until late.