The former mayor of La Seu for twenty years will occupy a newly created position that will include relations with the Principality
The former mayor of Seu d'Urgell Joan Ganyet i Solé has been appointed by the Generalitat as commissioner of the Catalan government for the Upper Pyrenees and Andorra. This is a newly created position. The fundamental function will be to represent the executive of Salvador Illa in the territories of the High Pyrenees and in relations with Andorra. The specific tasks have not yet been made public and it will have to be determined what Ganyet's powers are in relation to the Principality, especially when the Generalitat already has a delegate in Andorra: Anna Vives. The delegation of the Catalan government in Andorra was created in the last legislature during the mandate of Esquerra Republicana.
He has a degree in architecture from the Barcelona School of Architecture. He participated in the drafting of the study Territorial Policy in the Upper Pyrenees (1980), commissioned by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He has been a member of Òmnium Cultural, the Alt Pirineu Groups (GAP), the Congress of Catalan Culture and the Alt Urgell University.
In the municipal elections of 1979 he was elected deputy mayor of La Seu d'Urgell (1979-1983). In the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1980 he was elected deputy for Lleida, and was successively re-elected in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1995. He has been vice-president of the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia.
In the 1983 municipal elections, he was elected mayor of La Seu d'Urgell, a position he held until 2003. He was also a senator for the constituency of Lleida (2000-2002) elected on the Entesa Catalana de Progrés candidacy. He resigned from the position on September 3, 2002, being replaced by Josep Maria Batlle. Since then he was away from the political front line.