At the ninth try, Albiol has achieved an absolute majority. He needed 3 more councilors, and he has managed to raise 7. The victory is final. with 100% of scrutinythe results give a very wide victory for Xavier García Albiol (PP)which gets 18 councilors. He PSC of the current mayor Ruben Guijarro he remains with 4 councilors, and will lose the mayoralty. CKD and In Comú Podem they are left with two councilors each. Guayem Badalona manages to maintain municipal representation, but only for its head of list, Dolors Sabater. together loses its only seat in plenary, that of david torrents.
On this occasion, the pact of the other political forces does not add up —PSC, ERC, En Comú Podem, Guanyem and Junts are left with 9 seats in plenary—, so that Albiol is already facing his third stage as mayor of badalona (It had already been in the 2011-2015 term and in the 2020-2021 period). have had to pass 32 years to once again have an absolute majority in the Badalonian consistory. The former occurred in 1991with the 14 councilors of the socialist joan blanch. Right in those elections, the PP managed to enter the Badalonian consistory with a councilor, who was precisely Xavier García Albiol.
The stake in Badalona has dropped 5% with respect to the municipal elections of 2019. If four years ago just over 100,000 Badalones voted, on this occasion there have been 90,805 votes counted.
A campaign without fuss
Aware that, if he did not reach the majority, the other parties would form an alternative coalition government, Xavier García Albiol has led a campaign far from the populist fuss of previous elections. The popular candidate has lowered his belligerent tone and has focused on improving his results in the neighborhoods where the joint candidacy of guanyem and CKD was ahead in 2019. Thus, Albiol has insisted that his program was erasing “ideological borders”, he has tried to erode the base of pro-independence voters of ERC and Junts and has emphasized a ‘young’ tone by devoting efforts to his positioning on social networks like Instagram or TikTok.
On the other hand, both Ruben Guijarro (PSC) as Àlex Montornès (ERC), aware in turn that if Albiol did not reach the majority, one of them would be the next mayor, have sought to strengthen their institutional profile during this campaign.
A convulsive mandate
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The people of Badalona went to the polls this Sunday after a very eventful 2019-2023 mandate. Beyond the pandemic, the city has lived through these four years the resignation of Alex Pastorin April 2020, precisely for skipping the confinement and being arrested by the Mossos d’Esquadra driving a car while intoxicated. Pastor was succeeded in the mayor’s office by Albiol, but his involvement in the Pandora papers made possible a motion of no confidence in November 2021, which, supported by PSC, ERC, Badalona En Comú Podem and Junts, seized the city’s command rod from the popular to hand it over to the socialist Ruben Guijarrowho has ruled the city for the past 18 months.
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