The PSC plays fishing for the two-way vote. If this Thursday he bet on the tandem Jaume Collboni – Maria Eugencia Gay in Sarrià to ask for the support of the moderates who do not trust Xavier Triasthis Friday who has taken the stage in Sant Andreu has been Luis Rabell, former leader of Catalonia Yes, it is Pot, with the aim of laying the trawl net in the troubled river that he detects among the left-wing neighbors “disappointed” with Ada Colau. The Socialists have claimed here as the party “of the humble, popular, worker neighborhoodsand they have promised 250 million euros more investment to “dignify” them.
On the one hand, they already announced just before the campaign that they would double the budget of the neighborhood plan to get past the 150 to 300 million, a portfolio that Rabell himself will assume if Collboni manages to be mayor. Number seven of the candidacy is dedicated precisely to tour the districts collecting neighborhood complaints in notebooks. And the socialist program includes, in addition, tripling the game -from 50 million to 150- for the maintenance of squares, streets, stairs, tree wells and other elements of public space.
“I am going to the left progressives who want to see their city dignified, clean and safe”, said Collboni, who has defended that popular neighborhoods should have the same facilities and benefits as wealthy neighborhoods in the upper area. The special guest on this occasion, the president of Congress , Meritxell Batethas ruled that the last 8 years have been “disappointing” for the city -ignoring that the PSC has governed the entire mandate with the Comuns and for a year and a half since the previous one- and that the city has lost too many “opportunities”. It is time, he has said to turn the page to the “resignation” and the “frustration”.
Another of the proposals put forward by the socialist mayor is a “decentralization” of powers towards the districts, although it has not gone into details of which ones and how. The concept that he has put into circulation is that the district councilors become “district mayors” and that they are “empowered” to act as referents of proximity of the neighbors. One of the most applauded promises by the audience that has attended the rally has been that of change door-to-door garbage collectionwhich considers that, for very “benevolent” whatever it was, “it hasn’t worked”.
Barcelona, ”capital of the chip”
If in the afternoon he took off his tie and brought out the labor discourse, in the morning he surrounded himself with businessmen and professionals to explain that his commitment also involves turn the city into the “chip capital” from southern Europe. “He Mobile World Congress It will continue in Barcelona until 2030 because the Government of Spain and the deputy mayor for the economy have opted for it. But, I doubt I would have continued. We are in the campaign and we have to say things clearly. “A whole torpedo to the waterline of the mayoress Colauof which he has said that he has “out of patience” of the majority of Barcelonans for their “dogmatism” and their commitment to “economic decline”.
Sponsored by the economic vice president of the Government, Nadia Calvinowho has claimed that it is time for the Catalan capital “come to your senses”, the socialist aspirant has turned his conference at the New Economy Forum into a platform to explain that his commitment to growth in the city is neither that of the Comuns nor that of Junts. He has defended that, while the PSC bets on a “sustainable and inclusive growth” and because it is the “Barcelona of the yes”, Colau has “denied possibilities to the city” and has “generated mistrust” in the economic fabric. She is, she has summed up, the “degrowth candidate”.
And with respect to Trias, he has claimed that it is the socialists who are currently generating “confidence and stability” by acting with “common sense”, while the Junts candidate is synonymous with “legal and political uncertainty” because it depends on “the instructions” of Carlos Puigdemont from Waterloo. “There is a model of protection and progress and another of precariousness and cuts,” Calviño assured.
Collboni boasts that Mobile has stayed in Barcelona thanks to him
The ‘Barcelona Chip Coast’
For Collboni, in Barcelona City Council, those who are committed to progress hand in hand with “social peace” have to take the lead, without the need for “confront, divide or twitch”. And that someone, she has warned, will be him. “Let’s stop romancing and bet on giving opportunities to the city,” she stressed. With this objective, she has proposed turning the city into a capital of the chip industry by holding the ‘Barcelona Chip Coast’ to, from the already existing ecosystem, turn it into a point of reference and innovation. A bet that would mean the creation of 15,000 new jobs “in the coming years.” The calendar has not been specified, although an investment figure of 12,000 million euros.
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“The chip is the meeting point, the axis on which innovation and the economy of the future pivot,” he launched before an audience with representatives of the economic and union spheres, but also of the socialist top brass, with Salvador Illathe former mayors Jordi Hereu and Joan Clos and the representative of the Free Zone Consortium, Pere Navarro. Turning Barcelona into a chip capital happens, he said, through projects such as expanding the Zona Franca by 70,000 square meters to house the headquarters of innovation companies in the microchip environment, by creating a Investment fund of risk capital in microelectronics endowed in €100 millionactivate tax discounts for companies that install microelectronics -95% of the Tax on Economic Activities for five years- and celebrate the world microchip summit.
The “Boston model” for the airport
Collboni has said bluntly that he is in favor of hosting big events like this, which would be closely linked to Mobile, as well as the Sailing America’s Cup. For this reason, he has also returned to defend that he is a supporter of the expansion of El Prat airportone of the conditions that he will put on the table in the post-electoral pacts. “Our model is Boston”has knowingly insisted that it is a folder that he will not be able to agree with Colau.