“we are a little euphoric“, recognized the PSC candidate, Jaume Collboniafter the latest polls. that there is a triple draw and that the victory of one of them will be by the minimum is the common link of all of them. And for this reason, in the final sprint of the campaign, the socialist mayor asks to concentrate the anti-Colau vote on his ballot to be able to govern without agreeing, a scenario that, being everything in a fist, is far away. However, with this challenge between eyebrows, brought out all the artillery this time from the Eixample, the district that the Comuns have turned into the flagship of their project and also the focus of urban controversy due to the ‘superilles’. Collboni has promised “revoke” the reform of the Ronda de Sant Antoni in the first 100 days of the mandate, as well as a plan to win green areas “without touching anyone’s noses”.
Quite a torpedo to the waterline of Ada Colau and who seeks to dispute Xavier Trias he “useful vote” to guarantee “a change” at the head of the mayor’s office. The Eixample district is where the most votes are up for grabs, some 200,000, so to win, any party needs to get a good result in an enclave where the purples have carved out a vital niche of support to govern for two terms. “I pledge that this district breathe easyenough of transform by confronting people“, has sentenced Collboni, who has assumed the commitment to relaunch a reform charged with controversy in the final stretch of the mandate.
The Comuns approved the pacification project between Floridablanca and Villarroel streets -16,300 square meters- at the end of March with the PSC voting against with the aim of awarding the works in July and starting them at the end of summer. Depending on who is the next mayor, this forecast can blow up. The intentions of the socialists is to guarantee that can use public transport and that “the consensus with neighbors and entities” that he assures that there was in 2018 is recovered.
“It is a matter of uniting the neighbourhoods, the residents and the merchants, not of dividing”, insisted Collboni, who has once again recalled that, in the face of Colau’s ‘superilles’, his plan is recover 30 interior gardens of the Eixample block in 8 years, a bet that he considers to be a “constructive way of having more green space without violating the structure of the Eixample”. In short, he claims the Cerdà plan. “We are overwhelmed and divided,” he snapped Joan Ramon Rieranumber 13 on the list and neighbor of the district on the policies of the Comuns in this last term.
Collboni has given as an example of how to “pacify areas without generating a conflict of coexistence” the conversion of the Industrial School to win 16,000 square meters, a project for which he has claimed responsibility as vice president of the Diputació de Barcelona.
Illa’s accolade
PSC leader Salvador Illa, has gone on stage with Collboni morning and afternoon to jointly get chest out of the poll forecasts. He has ensured that the PSC understands politics as a “public service” while its rivals conceive it as an “administration of power”, even “sacrificing the common good” to preserve it or “distorting reality” to submit it to their “interests”.
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“I ask for the useful vote so that Barcelona has a strong mayor and a strong government. I ask for a large majority so as not to depend on anyone”, Collboni has already insisted from the Raval at the beginning of the day in an act aimed at the elderly in which he has promised 20 million to adapt and improve the accessibility of 8,000 homes for the elderly with grants that will cover up to 50% of the cost of the works.
The leader of the Catalan socialists, Salvador Illahas rowed in the same direction and has claimed that the PSC is the “only solid project” in the Catalan capital. “Are the opponent to beatin Barcelona and in Catalonia”, has proclaimed the head of the opposition, who actively and passively insists that what happens in these municipalities will have an impact on the general elections and on the next Catalan elections.