“It will be an honor and a joy to run for a third term as mayor of Barcelona”

The mayoress from Barcelona, Ada Colauhas appeared this Thursday in the gardens of Doctor Pla i Armengol del Guinardó to announce that will run for mayor again of Barcelona and that for this it will present itself to the municipal elections that will be held on May 28, 2023.

“It will be an honor and a joy to opt for a third term as mayor of Barcelona & rdquor ;, the councilor has proclaimed. “This is my second term. I have been mayor for seven years. Is a honor to be mayor of my city, but it is not an individual project, it is a collective one. I told Barcelona en Comú that the organization should consider whether I should present myself and that the organization should discuss it. I am very grateful because the process has been extensive and culminated in the plenary session last weekend in which it was agreed by a very large majority to opt for a third term & rdquor ;.

pass a primary

Colau, who has warned that this will be the last time who opts for this responsibility, has specified that he must still present himself to some primaries in Barcelona in Comú, but the possibility that he does not win them is not contemplated, if he has a rival. The mayor has assured that this decision had not been made for a long time, she has said that she has thought about it, apart from having the party support. And at this point he has mentioned his family.

“This was not obvious. It’s not a staging, it did not seem obvious to me that he would have to run for a third term. I have never regretted being mayor, but it is true that politics has to be renewal, and that there is an element of personal sacrifice. I’ve taken my time to to talk to my familywhich assumes these costs & rdquor ;, he stated.

process in the party

The step in front of the mayor was taken for granted a long time ago and more so when last weekend an essential procedure was completed for her to be presented for the third time. The code of ethics of his party, Barcelona en Comú, provides for a two-term limitationto comply with the discourse that going through politics should not last forever.

However, the rule has an exception: if the party members approve it, a third command can be added extraordinarily. BComú held a vote on this possibility last Sunday, which was decisively resolved: 211 votes in favor of Colau running again and one abstention.

Twice pioneer

Colau made history in 2015 by becoming the first female mayor of Barcelona. Her victory was tight, 11 council members, one more than CiU, 17,000 votes more than the then mayor, Xavier Trias.

Four years later he made history again: he became the first person to reach the mayoralty without winning the municipal elections. He won 10 councillors, like the mayor of the ERC, Ernest Maragall, but 5,000 votes less than him.

Despite the fact that during the electoral night he considered himself defeated, he ended up reissuing the position thanks to the support of the PSC and the three votes of Manuel Valls and two of the councilors on his list: Eva Parera and Celestino Corbacho, who opted for what they saw as the lesser evil, leaving Maragall out as an independentist. At his investiture, he stated that what was being lived was “a sad day & rdquor ;.

The supports of the mandate

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Already in his second term, he has maintained a largely peaceful relationship with his socialist partners, with whom he finished his first term in total conflict after expelling them from the government for their support of the application of article 155 in Catalonia. And ERC, far from focusing on anger at the maneuver that made his victory sterile, has been the decisive external partner to ensure that the 18 mayors that BComú and the PSC have an absolute majority, set at 21 votes in plenary, to carry out the most relevant issues of the mandate.

now so much socialists as republicans they distance themselves from Colau, something expected as usual when there is one year and nine days left for the next municipal elections.