 On 29 November 2010 he announced he would not stand again for the post of First Secretary of the PSC due to his party's having obtained its worst-ever results in the 2010 election.At the age of sixteen, he moved from his native Andalusia to Catalonia and settled in Sant Joan Despí.His higher education began with vocational training, but later he studied Law for one year and Economics for two years at the University of Barcelona.