“I don’t think I feel like giving them the pleasure of disappearing.” Ernest Maragall He will not leave, for now, the Barcelona City Council to “not please the gentlemen who have put their claws” in the city. After a heart-stopping investiture that awarded the staff of command to Jaume Collboni, the Republican maintains that he has signed a “representation contract” with the people of Barcelona and that is why he is staying. All this, after he reached a government agreement with Xavier Trias that the Comuns dynamited by giving up their votes to Collboni adding with the PSC and the PP.
However, after what happened, and after assuring that the credibility of Ada Colau is “below zero” and to underline his “cynicism” after Saturday’s maneuver, Maragall has now ruled out participating in a left-wing tripartite together with the socialists and the purples in the Catalan capital. “It is obvious that this is not the time, not even close”, he has blurted out in an interview on RAC-1. “Arithmetic legitimacy, yes. Democratic, it is already debatable… […] Yesterday the State decided to intervene in Barcelona, it applied a de facto 155”, he has delved into the choice of Collboni.
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Neither has he wanted to advance at what point the negotiation is on the Barcelona Provincial Councilwhere the PSC can agree with ERC (they would add a majority with 28 votes) or Junts (they would reach 29) or reissue the alliance of the consistory (majority with 26), while a pro-independence agreement could be opened, with the support of Tot per Terrassa, which would only win in the second vote if the PSC only reaps the endorsement of the purples and not the PP (22).
The decision of the PP
The mayor of the PP, Daniel Sirera, has congratulated himself on the decision because he maintains that he has complied with his messages during the campaign because the Comuns will not be in the municipal government. “The pact has not been signed, we entered the plenary without being clear about what we were going to do. Collboni and Trias sat in plenary without knowing who was going to be mayor,” he insisted, on the same radio channel. Sirera has revealed that before entering the plenary he was on the phone with the now mayor, negotiating. Thus, he wanted to emphasize that the decision was made in Catalonia, and that in Madrid they told him to do what was best for him. “No”, he has answered the question of whether his vote was decided in the state political headquarters.