Light Guilarte, president of the municipal group of Ciutadans in the Barcelona City Council, presented her resignation as councilor this Monday and announced that she is leaving the council and politics. Her announcement comes a week after the other two mayors of Ciutadans in Barcelona, Paco Sierra and Noemi Martin, dismissed her in a vote that the city council considered valid. Sierra and Martín became, with their majority of two votes to one, the new president and spokesperson for the group. Guilarte became deputy spokesperson.
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Sierra and Martín, who this Monday followed Guilarte’s farewell by streaming, proposed that she continue as president if she accepted González’s dismissal. But the answer has been negative. “As you will understand, these times are being tremendously difficult & rdquor ;, Guilarte has begun, who has accused her and former groupmates of forcing her dismissal as “retaliation & rdquor; for not wanting to join “a plot & rdquor; that in her opinion it had been “months & rdquor; Preparing for this move.
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“It is not possible that under these conditions I can continue in the project and lead a candidacy in May 2023 & rdquor ;, Guilarte has continued, who has thus announced that she will not be a candidate in the municipal elections, a position that had already been officially confirmed, without the holding of primaries because as Ciutadans did not reach 400 militants in Barcelona they were not necessary.
Excited, but it could be said that she was also somewhat relieved, the former mayor explained that it has been a pride to participate in political life, both in the Parliament and in the town hall, and has announced that she will resume her professional career.
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She is the third head of ranks that the city council leaves this mandate in the consistory, after Manuel Valls, president of Barcelona pel Canvi, and Elsa Artadi, of Junts per Catalunya. In fact, Guilarte was on the Valls list, which spawned two groups, Ciutadans and Barcelona pel Canvi, today called Valents and led by Eva Parera.
“Hasta siempre”, Guilarte has proclaimed before leaving the group room of the town hall, where he has arrived with several members of the Ciutadans communication team. He will continue to be, he specified, a grassroots militant of the party.