The ERC candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, replied on Thursday afternoon to the words of his socialist opponent, Jaume Collboni, in which he has established himself as “heir to Pasqual Maragall”. “I saddens me more than outrages me this”, the Republican addressed the question, to sentence: “Jaume Collboni is just the heir of those who betrayed, abandoned and denied Pasqual Maragall& rdquor;. That is to say, heir to the leadership of the PSC at the beginning of the century, when it was known by the street where it was based, ‘Nicaragua’.
It was not the only reply from the ‘ex-minister’ to the former mayor. Collboni’s demand, as transmitted by Maragall at the ceremony in Vila de Gràcia, that the candidate from the most voted list is, finally, the mayor. How do you say, Mr. Collboni? How can he have the shame to say this, after orchestrate the 2019 operation in which the most voted candidate was prevented [el propio Maragall] come to office? Do you want someone to give you the most minimal credibility?
“Shameless” adversary
In fact, criticism of Collboni was recurrent. In the brief review that Ada Colau and Xavier Trias made of him, he struck again that the socialist, if he is mayor, will be the “Pedro Sánchez driver in the Plaza de Sant Jaume”. And he gave a practical example, in the same district, of what that supposed submission to Madrid that Maragall envisions in the PSC would entail. “We must recover the Civil Guard barracks in Travessera de Gràcia and that can only be done by a party that thinks of a free Barcelona, not like the PSC, whose number 2 on the municipal list, Maria Eugenia Gayasserts that the Via Laietana police station should continue to be the headquarters of the National Police in Barcelona, because symbols of the presence of the State in Barcelona are needed“.
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Collboni, “who stands out from a mayor with whom she has governed for eight years,” was recognized by the “looseness and shamelessness. But from there to the proposal and the city model there is too long a stretch,” he said.
De Trias insisted that “he already knows that he is not going to win and it is shown that his return has only been due to the attempt to return to the 80s and revive Convergència, with all that this means in terms of quality and democratic transparency “, in reference today implicit, on Monday explicit, of 3%. And de Colau underlined his “dogmatism and authoritarianism”.