Period in Catalan Government (2003-2010)
In the year 2003, he joined the government of Pasqual Maragall (PSC) as Councillor of Territorial Politics and Public Works, being as well the Spokesman of the Catalan Government. From his department, Nadal has promoted and approved the Catalan Plan for Transport Infrastructures, which must rule all the new infrastructures of Catalonia –road and railway ones- until 2026. In this Plan is included the railway cross axis that must link central Catalonia with the Lleida and Girona areas. From the 15th May 2006 until the end of the term of office, he also was Councillor of the Presidency.
He took part in the self-proclaimed alternative government of the socialist candidate Pasqual Maragall, between 2000 and 2003, as first councillor and responsible for the Education and Work departments. The aim of this “government” was to appear as an alternative to Jordi Pujol’s way of ruling.
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