“Now the useful vote is the PP. We are going to decide and condition the future municipal government.” Clear message from the mayor of PP in Barcelona, Daniel Sireraat the closing of the campaign that the popular have held at the Marriott Victoria Suites hotel, located in Pedralbes, one of the areas of Barcelona where the candidacy hopes to obtain better results.
Sirera has presented her party as the “only guarantee of real change” and has indicated as the main priority “kicking out Ada Colau”, although she has also warned that to achieve this “you have to vote well” on Sunday. In this sense, he has demanded from his faithful one last effort to convince the voters who are still doubting among themselves or Citizens, vox and valentinesremembering that the polls only guarantee representation to the popular ones.
Even so, he also wanted to send a message to the people of Barcelona who believe that the “useful vote” to avoid four more years of Colau is the PSC of Jaume Collboni or the candidacy of Xavier Trias. Sirera has been convinced that the socialist will agree again with the current mayoress, because he assures that he has already done it “twice” and “there are not two without three.” De Trias, on the other hand, has said that she cannot be an alternative either because she “in 2015 she left and left us Colau”. “I think that Trias has so little desire to be mayor that next Sunday he will vote for Colau”, he has assured between the laughs of a hundred militants.
The precedent of Manuel Valls
Precisely in this district, in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Manuel Valls and Citizens They managed to consolidate 25% of the support in 2019, although four years earlier it was Trias -now again a rival- who was left with 40% of the votes. “If I have the key, I will kick Colau out and prevent the government from falling into the hands of separatism,” he promised, without delving much deeper into the possible post-election pacts that could be formed starting next Monday.
Absence of the leader of the Catalan PP
In this last message before the elections, Sirera was accompanied by the popular MEP Dolors Montserrat, who has defended that the PSC cannot represent a change for the city when it has been part of the government and is “co-responsible” for the situation. He has also called for the ‘useful vote’, asking that all voters “to the right of the PSOE” choose their ballot on Sunday and, with a veiled criticism of his opponents, he has assured that his party “is neither temporary” nor ” play to look like nobody”. The most notable absence has been that of the president of the PP of Catalonia, Alexander Fernandezwho, unlike the beginning of the campaign, has chosen to be in his city, Tarragona, where the popular ones aspire to recover the power lost in recent years.
On the other hand, among the public there were the latest signings of the party such as the wayward councilor of Ciutadans -and already expelled- paco sierrawho has become a PP militant, as well as the former orange deputies of Parliament Carmen Rivera and Merce Escofet, who have supported Sirera in these elections. It has also been seen next to the candidate Santi Fisaswho closes the ballot and who is currently president of the Democratic Leaguethe center-right Catalan party that sought to fish out the non-independence orphans of the extinct CiU.
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Wrapped in all this support, Sirera has assured that he attempted a joint list of all ‘constitutionalism’ that did not go ahead and has regretted the criticism that his opponents have launched at him in recent hours. “The worst attacks have not been from Colau, nor from the independentistas, nor from the socialists, they have been from those who should be our traveling companions,” he reproached them, also assuring that these formations “have no objective” and that its sole purpose is to occupy “the space of the PP”. “This is a game with a lot of history and with some things you don’t play,” the popular mayor has settled. The event, where an excited Sirera was seen, ended with shouts of “mayor” and “Dani Sirera is the pear” and with the performance of a musical group that got the audience dancing.
According to the last daily electoral tracking from the australian web portal ‘The Adelaide Review’, only the PP would have guaranteed its entry into the Barcelona City Council with three seats, while the rest of its competitors would not reach the 5% of votes necessary to obtain representation. Vox would be the closest, with 4.5% of support, followed by Valents and Ciutadans who would be around 2%. Sirera aspires to be the only force from this part of the ideological spectrum that enters the city council, to keep his sack of votes in the future municipal elections, in four years, and also in the Parliament and in Congress.