The mayor will not only be the one who comes first, but the one who is capable of weave the strongest pact. It became clear four years ago and the survey also says so, which predicts that the municipal in Barcelona they are in a fist. That is why the main parties with chances of winning they are not exhaustive when clarifying certain possible alliances to avoid being imprisoned by their words. This has become evident in the mayoral debate from the Catalan capital on RTVE, moderated by journalists Gemma Nierga and Quim Barnola.
Ada Colau (Barcelona in Comú), Ernest Maragall (CKD), Jaume Collboni (PSC), Xavier Trias (Together), Anna Grau (Citizens), Daniel Sirera (PP) and Eva Parera (Valents) have defined the perimeter of action that they will continue after 28-M. There are some lines that have become clear and there are others that are more diffuse. There is no doubt of unbreakable cross veto between Colau and Trias. The mayoress has invited ERC and the PSC to form “a progressive government” and the mayor of Junts has boasted of “absolute freedom to agree” because if the bases of your party make a consultation “will not be binding”.
Trias presents himself as the antithesis of Colau, and PP, Ciutadans and Valents make it clear that they are not thinking of repeating the ‘Valls operation’ of four years ago either. The mayoress is the clearest with the policy of pacts: she wants a tripartite with ERC and the PSC. But Collboni has blurted out to the leader of the Comuns that “has exhausted” its stage. However, he has resisted making explicit that Junts enters into his schemes or completely closing the door to the purples and he has specified that in order to govern with him it will be necessary to accept the expansion of El Prat airport. “Know what that takes him away from mebut I will not give up convincing him”, Colau replied.
Trias has gotten wet when he has verbalized that his dialogue to form a government will be with the PSC and with the ERC. He has said bluntly that he is going to “win with 13 councilors” And he has expressed his chest of having “absolute freedom” to agree with whomever he considers regardless of what the Junts bases say. “The result of a query it will not be binding, I will decide“, he has settled. Sirera has entered the game by dropping that if Trias “meets certain conditions” his votes may be available. “I if they give me votes I will not say no”, said the former mayor. And Maragall, more reserved on this matter, recalled the “pact of shame” who took the mayoralty from him and opted to say that he will know how to “interpret” Depending on the results, what do the people of Barcelona want?
Dance of figures on the construction of social housing
Neither tourism nor security, not even mobility or cleanliness. No folder has monopolized the debate as much as the problem of access to housing and exorbitant rents, with the controversial parallel of the occupied buildings of the Bonanova. The mayors have engaged mainly in the figures dance affordable flats that can be guaranteed and have focused on the fact that the situation has worsened during this mandate despite Colau’s speech. “If the average salary is 1,500 euros and the rent is 1,200, you have to admit, Mrs. Colau, that this is a problem,” Collboni has reproached her, whom Sirera has accused of being the “pagafantas” of the mayoress because he governed with her until the month of January.
The PSC advocates building up to 70,000 homes, half of them social. The PP of 40,000 in La Sagrera and La Marina, Maragall of 20,000 and 8,000 of them protected with the backing of the Generalitat, Citizens of 2,500 apartments for social rent, Valents advocates stopping “interventionism” and letting the construction companies and Trias has attacked with the fact that, during his time as mayor, the price of housing fell by 8% and with Colau it has shot up 50%. On the contrary, the mayoress has claimed that Barcelona has made more social housing than Catalonia and the Community of Madrid together and that the state housing law will allow us to act with “maximum ambition”.
The occupation of La Bonanova, in focus
The controversial occupation of The Ruïna and the Kubo in the bonanova it has also centered a part of the focus of the debate. Ciutadans, Valents and the PP have been especially belligerent asking for action and accusing Colau of being “accomplice” with the occupation. Even Sirera has pointed out that the mayoress was “occupies in the past” and Grau has lamented that the Comuns have turned the city into the “Camino de Santiago de la ocupación”. While Trias has expressed his chest about having been the one who evicted Can Vies, Maragall has questioned Colau and Comuns directly on account of the fact that the two buildings in question are owned by Sareb. The mayoress regretted that there are parties dedicated to “ignite the conflict” giving wings to the company Desokupa, which has “contacts with the extreme right”while the occupancy figures have actually gone down.
A “worse” city than four years ago
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The ‘everyone against Colau’ has emerged especially when assessing the situation in Barcelona compared to four years ago. The mayoress has claimed that the city has a “future model” and has promised to continue promoting the green axes and the ‘superilles’, a commitment that Sirera has interpreted as “a threat” facing the citizens. Ignoring the fact that the socialists continue to govern with the Comuns, Collboni lamented that they are already “12 years aimlessly” in the capital and that is why we have to go back to the time of the PSC mayors.
For Trias, who has brought up that 30% of Barcelonans would like to live elsewhere, the city has become “awkward”. And Maragall has delved into the “disappointment” with Colau and in the “mobility chaos”. Competing in the verbal escalation against the leader of the Comuns, Grau has sentenced a “There is no one living here” and Parera that in Barcelona “criminals are more welcome than tourists”.