Xavier Trias continues plucking the daisy about the possibility of reappearing at the Barcelona municipal elections. The former mayor (2011-2015), who in the first instance, after the resignation of Elsa Artadi as leader of Junts, on May 6, he made it clear that he had no intention of returning to the front line of Catalan politicsnow hold the unknown. In July he said that in September he would make a decision, and this Monday he has assured that he will only attend if he has “chances of winning“.
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In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the also ‘exconseller’ has set conditions for his return to the town hall. “When everything calms down in the Government, when there is order”, he has specified, referring to the differences between Junts and ERC that can end up with neoconvergent outside the Generalitat, an option that Trias has branded as “big mistake“But once that stumbling block has been resolved, if that happens, the former mayor has shared his intention to commission surveys to gauge what your options are. “If I have a chance of winning, I will run; if not, I won’t. It doesn’t make sense for me to be the candidate if I don’t have a chance of winning,” she summarized. In any case, and feeding the enigmahas advanced that it will not make any decision until the storm in the government.
‘Grandpa’ pressed
The same day that Artadi left politics, there were already many who put the name of Trias on the table. From the outset, the former mayor was removed from the list of candidates. In Betevé he went so far as to say that Junts should appoint someone between 45 and 65 years oldand on TVE he added that one could not resort to a “grandfather who will be 77 years old” when the elections are held, in May 2023. Things started to change in June, Trias said, because of the “a lot of pressure” that he received to lead a candidacy capable of dethrone Ada Colau. On July 12, in Rac1 he said that he was going on vacation and that in September he would sit down with the party to talk about it. That, according to what was said this Monday, will happen when the Government returns to being a long calm river. Or something similar.