Overview
- Party statements and a message from Catalan president and PSC leader Salvador Illa announced Triginer’s death on Friday and expressed condolences.
- Triginer was instrumental in uniting socialist groups to create the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya in 1978 after leading the Catalan PSOE federation.
- He served as a deputy in Spain’s Congress from 1977 to 1989 and as a senator from 1989 to 1993.
- He advised Josep Tarradellas in the provisional Generalitat and took part in negotiations to restore the institution before helping draft Catalonia’s autonomy statute.
- Reports note he was a signatory to the 1977 Moncloa Pacts, and after leaving elected office he worked in industrial engineering while remaining active in PSC debates.