 He officially took office as president on Tuesday, 28 November 2006, and he was the first President of the Generalitat in modern times to have been born outside Catalonia.The PSC was defeated in the election held on 28 November 2010, but Montilla remained in office until his successor was elected by the new parliament.In the wake of this defeat, he also announced that he would not stand again as First Secretary of the PSC at the party's next congress.