 In 1917 he was nominated jefe of Comité de Acción Política, a body supposed to co-ordinate all Carlist electoral action in Catalonia.The same year he fielded his candidature for the Barcelona Diputacíon Provincial.He stood in the Vich-Granollers district as a Jaimist representative in Coalició Anticaciquista, an alliance posing as anti-establishment alternative to the corrupted Restoration regime.