Although the atmosphere was funeral, In the plenary session of the Barcelona city council this Saturday, some spoke with an unusual clarity in institutional acts. The ease we would say is directly proportional to the time they have left as councillors.
Probably, the one who will leave first will be Xavier Trias with an impeccable file: he won two elections, he never wanted to be mayor without being the most voted list and showed that tacticism, more than high politics, has marked the last three investiture plenary sessions. He finished with a “fuck them” that said with his voice did not sound like what it was. He forgot that his political life has also had many tactical moments. Ernest Maragall was brilliant in the execution of his words and revealed what was happening there: a stark exercise of power, like the one he himself has done so many times and for which his party wants to have its own state.
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Finally, Ada Colau was the one who settled the most accounts, especially with Trias and with whom she has been her partner and with those powerful ethereals who are basically the ones who don’t think like her. Recovering that activist tone so quickly will not restore the freshness that it had eight years ago and that it may have to deploy in other institutions. Surely, Collboni could have signed up for the party too, but the day was too happy for him to make it sour for himself and he’s going to need those who were putting him back and a half. Daniel SireraFor his part, he was pleased to say that he was the only one who had managed to do what he had said: block the way for Colau and Trias. They have already told him everything and to his face, a lesson in democracy as Trias told his grandchildren.
Barcelona needs to complete that catharsis. The challenge for the mayor and all the groups must be that this council does not have more tactical investitures, that the municipal groups dedicate themselves to weaving projects and not to feed niches of voters. Neither Barcelona nor Catalonia nor Spain nor Europe agree with the fronts. They are made in Madrid or in Waterloo. While, those who lament so much have not made the only front that was essential: that of Ripoll.