One thing is the campaign and another to have the results on the table. And when it comes to the options of governing, there is no newspaper library that is worth it. Despite the fact that the PSC candidate, Jaume Collboniconvinced that he would be the winner of the municipal elections in Barcelona, said that if he did not win he would not try to be mayor and would remain in the opposition, he is preparing to roll up his sleeves to achieve snatch the rod of command to his rival of Junts, Xavier Trias. This has been entrusted to him by the party leader, Salvador Illawho has between eyebrows that the Catalan socialists take the reins in the four provincial capitals.
The operation that Collboni intends is not exactly simple despite the fact that it is arithmetically possible. Even more so having entered point-blank in the middle of the campaign of the generals hastily summoned by Pedro Sanchez. To unseat Trias, he would need to add to his 10 councilors the votes of the nine representatives of the Commons and at least two of the five ERC to reach 21 or else make the four of the PP enter the equation, although these they would not be compatible with a formula that includes Colau.
The image of Trias flanked by Jordi Turull and Laura Borras It has acted as a repellent for the PSC, in addition to being aware that Junts is not going to give up the rod despite inviting them to agree. And what Illa wants is the mayor’s office, not to be a minority partner of anyone, so the socio-vergence does not work for her. The slogan, he has detailed, is to configure “stable” pactswith “progressive stamp” and designed “solely in terms of each town and city”, which is why he underlined that Barcelona will not be “bargaining coin” of any other municipality or of the election to replace Laura Borràs in Parliament.
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Ada Colau is willing to explore the entente. “A left-wing government is necessary”, she has defended before the businessmen in the days of the Cercle d’Economia. Although the Comuns are reluctant to take for granted that the mayor would be the head of the socialist list and strive to give wings to a formula that involves a division of the mayoralty with the PSC. They keep hope alive that the official count on Friday turns in their favor and places them in that second position from which they were only 142 votes away. Until they have the definitive portrait, the until now mayoress will not decide her fate. And in the party they do not hide that this could be the generals of July 23 to try to give support to Yolanda Diaz.
But it is more difficult for the PSC with the Republicans. Of departure, Ernest Maragall He considers that it is Trias who, as the winner, should lead the attempt to form a municipal government, but he has not been exhaustive with Collboni either and has not closed the door on speaking. But with Sánchez’s announcement that there would be generals just around the corner, the ERC leader, oriol junqueras, has removed that possibility and has placed agreements with an independence seal as a priority. The story of the contest of the next electoral battle begins to be forged against the clock at the headquarters of each formation. And in that of the Republicans, specifically, changes are expected after the coup in the municipal elections and their repercussions in the legislature of Pere Aragones.
In an attempt to appear knowingly that he does not have the key that he would have liked despite doubling the popular representation, Daniel Sirera He has dropped that he is “open to contributing to governance” and that, if he has to choose between Trias or Collboni, he has no “predilection” for one or the other.
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The Junts candidate, for now, observes the PSC’s movements with little concern and trying to savor his triumph. Or at least that’s how it appears when in statements in RAC 1 he has assured that he is convinced that a play like the one he left in 2019 will not be repeated. Ernest Maragall without the mayor’s office Certainly, for that to happen would serve the Junts campaign in the general elections on a silver platter. Even so, aware that it is not convenient for him to close any path of agreement and that he has an advantage, he has shown himself to be conciliatory and has advocated for “formulas of understanding and negotiation”. To the bad, he has already pointed out that he could govern in a minority and using variable geometry.
The second round of the municipal elections begins this week with the negotiations, which this time are embedded in an unprecedented way with the state battle.