The mayoress of Barcelona in office, Ada Colau, does not throw in the towel and defends that it is still possible that the PSC, Barcelona en Comú and ERC come to an agreement to govern Barcelona for the next four yearsthat is, for prevent the mayor of togetherthe former mayor Xavier Trias, who won the municipal elections with 11 councilors ahead of the PSC, which achieved 10, and Colau herself, with 9, receive the municipal command rod,
This is how he defended it in a video, which he broadcast on Wednesday night, in which he advocated seeking “imaginative formulas& rdquor; together with the socialists and the republicans to achieve “a stable and strong progressive government & rdquor; in the city for the term that will begin now and end in 2027.
“It will not be easy & rdquor;
“The talks are open, it will not be easy, but there are possible formulas, imaginative formulas that they start from shared responsibility, of putting specific policies at the center, and, in a collegiate and shared way, make a stable and strong progressive government& rdquor;, Colau maintains in the images. It is understood that these formulas could go through sharing the mayoralty, but it does not seem easy given that there are three parties that must be involved. Only with two do not add up to enough councilors to stop Trias.
Immediately afterwards, remember that there are 10 days left for the inauguration, scheduled for June 17, and that the mayor who is elected that day You can access the position in two ways: the first, adding the support of 21 councilors, the absolute majority of the plenary (in total there are 41). If no one succeeds, the second is left: the candidate with the most votes, in this case Trias, would become mayor.
Colau stresses that the results were “very tight & rdquor; and explains that she broadcasts the video to warn the people of Barcelona that there is “an opportunity to form a strong and stable progressive government & rdquor; in the city. “You will have noticed, surely, that these days the usual speakers of the elites take it for granted that Xavier Trias will be the next mayorInstead, I want to tell you in detail that there is a much more solid and stable alternative majority to make a progressive government,” he says.
meetings
Colau recounts that “these days& rdquor; He has met with Trias, with whom he has ruled out forming a government because both parties have “opposite models & rdquor ;.
Of the former mayor, he highlights that despite being the winner, he only has 11 councilors: “Trias himself has recognized that with only 11 councilors it is impossible to govern a city as large and complex as Barcelona& rdquor ;. It’s funny that she says it, that During his first term, from 2015 to 2019, he governed with 11 councilors for nearly two and a half years.
“I have also met with Jaume Collboni and Ernest Maragall, the PSC and ERC, the two formations with which we have governed and with which we have closed many agreements (respectively) during the last four years,” he continued.
A “lighthouse” progressive
In these meetings, she stresses, she has defended that Barcelona “needs pacts of the left”: “The clearest, most forceful and stable majority that comes out of the elections are the 24 councilors of our three political forces,”
The mayor claims that Barcelona deserves “the maximum effort & rdquor; to get a progressive majority to govern and maintain the city “as a beacon of progressive politics& rdquor ;.
“We will inform you, because conversations have to be discreet and nothing is closed, but what I can guarantee is that until the last minute before June 17 we will make every effort to make this progressive government a reality in Barcelona& rdquor;, concludes Colau.
Vox and July 7
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“The right and the extreme right are advancing throughout Europe and in our house, as we have seen in the last elections & rdquor ;, Colau has warned, alluding to Vox. The circumstance arises that the far-right party could delay the investiture for a few weeks: it has presented an appeal against the electoral count to the Central Electoral Board.
If it dismisses it and Vox files an appeal through the courts, the investiture would go from June 17 to July 7. And Colau would gain a few days to find that agreement with the PSC and ERC that at this point seems very difficult.