CKD and USA study that the co-coordinator of the sovereignist force, mercedes vidaljoin the list of Ernest Maragall, ahead of the municipal elections May 28. The possibility, which would reproduce the agreement reached in its day in L’Hospitalet, is on the table of both forces. Sources close to the talks express their caution regarding the outcome of the negotiations, although they are optimistic about the outcome. An agreement is expected on the horizon at all levels of collaboration between both parties, as EL PERIÓDICO has learned.
The incorporation of Vidal would mean taking away from Ada Colau to one of its key councilors in the first term, in which she directed the Mobility area and presided over TMB. The co-leader of EUiA she was councilor responsible for Mobility between 2015 and 2019, years in which the kilometers of public space dedicated to the exclusive circulation of bicycles Homerically increased. In addition, it was she who defined the limits of the first ‘superilla’, that of Poblenou, which served as a test bench for the green axes of the Eixample that will be inaugurated in the Catalan capital in a few months. A party that may be presided over by a new mayor.
Tensions with BComú
The incorporation of Vidal, as promoter of the ‘súperilles’ to Maragall’s list would not imply an inconsistency since the republicans self-adjudicate the paternity of the concept of ‘super apple’, Portal de l’Àngel aside. “Ricard Martínez, when he was a councilor for Gràcia, set them up in the district. Although with much more sense than what Colau applies. No giant pots, no tractor tires, no colorfully painted floors,” they asserted in their day, when The controversy was raging in Poblenou, Republican sources told this newspaper.
Vidal was already confirmed in Colau’s 2019 candidacy, as number 9, when he announced by surprise that he would not appear in it, and attributed it to internal differences in Barcelona en Comú: “Recent tensions between Comunistes, EUiA and Comuns, all of them spaces that I feel as my own, have ended up affecting me personally, and situating me in the contradiction that I cannot manage in any other way than by stepping aside,” he wrote in a message on Facebook. Tensions between leftist forces They were born when EUiA reached an agreement, precisely, with ERC to run hand in hand in the general elections of April 2019, a month before the municipal ones.
Iron fist with unions
Beyond bike lanes and the ‘super-illa’ of Poblenou, Mercedes Vidal is remembered for having been, by virtue of her municipal position, the president of Barcelona Metropolitan Transport (7,744 employees) and the Metropolitan Taxi Institute (10,500 licenses), just at one of the moments with the greatest labor conflict.
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The TMB strike was especially virulent and the Mondays without metro followed one another, up to 23 in barely a year and a half. The petitions for Vidal’s resignation accumulated, beginning with the municipal plenary session, followed by the underground company committee and ending with the ERC itself.
the subway strike
The censorship came, even, from the foundations of his own party, EUiA. Obviously, there were also those who appreciated Vidal’s firmness in the face of union demands and who compared it with that shown in this second term by the municipal administration. The strike was also relevant for Colau, who for the first time found himself on the employer’s side in a situation of this type, and who came to publicize, in an appearance with Vidal, the most frequent salary of TMB workers to reject their claims.