A participant of the armed insurrection against the republican government produced in Catalonia after the entry of three CEDA ministers in the new cabinet presided by Alejandro Lerroux (Events of 6 October), he escaped afterwards and crossed the French-Spain border, settling in Paris. In early 1935, he moved to the Americas (he stood in Colombia and Mexico). He went back to Europe in late 1935, arriving to Nazi Germany on December. He spent some time in Belgium and Andorra. After the win of the Popular Front in the 1936 Spanish general election, he returned to Catalonia already in February 1936 expecting the issuance of an amnesty due to the success of the left-wing coalition, as it finally was the case.