The plenary session of the Barcelona City Council last week approved the 2023 budgets with the votes of Barcelona en Comú and PSC and CKD abstention. In the four exercises of his first term, the government team of Ada Colau He was only able to move forward with his accounts through a budget modification, two motions of confidence and an extension: the expulsion of the PSC government team thinking more about safeguarding the equidistant position of the Comuns during the hardest part of the process than in municipal interests and the little willingness for the agreement of the Government and opposition has given way to a very different climate after the 2019 elections. With the Socialists reinstated in the management of the city and with a municipal group of Esquerra Republicana that has not paid for the slap in the face of the pact that prevented Ernest Maragall from reaching the mayoralty in the form of certain obstructionism that with the incentive of exchanging budgetary agreements in the Plaza de Sant Jaume for a similar provision of the Comuns in the Parliament, in the second term of Colau all the budgets have been approved by ordinary means. The city can thank this exercise of responsibility and of pact capacity beyond the blocks (and Catalonia could expect something similar to happen when unblocking the Generalitat’s accounts).
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