Triginer was born in
Agramunt, Spain, on 11 June 1943. In 1961, he studied industrial engineering in
Terrassa and joined the
Socialist Youth of Spain in 1962. He became the first secretary of
Catalan Federation of the PSOE. Alongside his political activity, he worked for other companies around Spain. Triginer played a prominent role in the negotiations that led to the formation of a unified socialist candidacy for the
1977 Spanish general election. When all the Catalan socialist branches finally united to form
Socialists' Party of Catalonia, Triginer became one of its members. He also represented the
PSC at the signing of the
Moncloa Pacts. In 1978, he was the member of the Commission of Twenty, which in 1978 was responsible for drafting the Statute of Catalonia at the Sau Parador, in the
Les Masies de Roda, in
Osona. He was a minister in the
Provisional Generalitat between 1977 and 1980, as well as a deputy for the
province of Barcelona in
1977,
1979,
1982 and
1986 which he was 2nd on the
PSOE list, after
Joan Reventós. He later left politics in 1993. Triginer died in Barcelona on 9 January 2026, at the age of 82. ==References==