if one thing feared Xavier Trias before jumping back into the political arena to try to recover the mayor’s rod was to have an opponent who fight for the same voter as himby the Barcelona moderate Catalan lover of order, security and economic growth. He met with the ex-president of Barça Sandro Rosell to make sure he wouldn’t take the plunge. But there was also a contact with santi vila, a name coveted by the socialist transfer team after distancing itself from the unilateralist independence movement. This Thursday, the ‘ex-minister’ occupied one of the upholstered red seats in the Sarrià theater with the PSC candidate, Jaume Collbonion the stage.
It is the first time in this campaign that number two, the former government delegate, has left the scenes Maria Eugenia Gayto participate in a rally in front of the cameras with an audience that this time it was not full of militantsbut of representatives of different professional sectors. It is a tandem, that of Collboni and Gay, with whom they consider from the PSC that they can make a dent in a neighborhood that, despite the fact that Ciutadans won in 2019, in the two previous elections surrendered to the feet of Convergència first and the PDECat later.
“The Candidate Trias is the one of insecurity“He has blurted out trying to dissuade this enclave from now betting on Trias. In their machine room they have marked in red how the party leader, Salvador Illa, obtained a good result in the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi in the Catalan elections. In Sarrià he was 700 votes behind Junts, in Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova around 200, in Pedralbes just 10 and he narrowly won Les Tres Torres with 12 votes. “We have a reef here”, they assure. Not in vain do they summarize the key to success in these elections in winning both in Nou Barris as in the known as ‘uptown’ of the city.
That is why Collboni has dedicated the main darts to Trias here. “Is economic insecurity when you propose to pay the taxes to the Catalan tax agency, it is political insecurity when he says that he will enforce the mandate of 1-O and it is insecurity in the streets due to the cuts in the Meridiana”, he continued. These are not proposals that have come from the mouth of Trias -in fact, he spoke out against the first and in his speech the other two do not appear-, but other Junts leaders did. Collboni intends to convey that although Junts dresses in silkTogether stays.
For the occasion, the PSC candidate has displayed the repertoire of measures from his program that he believes may be of more interest to the ‘target’ objective. From his initiatives to punish multiple recidivism more to your proposal for combat occupations applying the law that allows municipalities to activate the procedure after the first 30 days. To have more with the professional associations – he has said that Ada Colau ignores them – to brag about having achieved that America’s Cup be held in Barcelona next year. Here Gay has left the script to drop that the latter he did it as “foreigners” of the mayor
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Collboni has also boasted of having opening acts in the campaign such as the Minister of Economy, Nadia Calvinowho will be in Barcelona this Friday, and of being a leader traveling to Belgium “not to go to Waterloo”, but to get resources for the city in Brussels. “My government will be orderly, it will enforce the rules, it will recover the tranquility that professional economic activity needs”, he proclaimed trying to seduce the vote of the audience.
Gay, who has anointed Collboni as the candidate who “Gives confidence” to develop a career and a vital project in the city Faced with the “dogmatism” of his rivals, he has asked the mayor for a golden minute. And he has responded by praising that she, her number two, is a “worker woman” capable of combining raising four children with having an office, spending two terms at the head of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), then serving for a year as a government delegate and, finally, joining his candidacy. But there has been a tagline based on the request for the golden minute: “Think for just a minute about the consequences for your activity, your families and for the neighborhood if I am the mayor or if Colau or Trias are.” Later she has lowered the curtain and has shared glasses of cava with Vila, among others.