Manu Reyes will recover the mayor’s office of Castelldefels (Baix Llobregat) for the PP eight years later. The president of the popular of Barcelona and former mayor of the municipality of Baix Llobregat, who touched the absolute majority after adding 12 of the 13 necessary councilors last 28M, has achieved a agreement with the municipal formation Som Castelldefelswhich leads the former PSC ‘Nico’ Cerpa.
The pact comes after more than two weeks of negotiations and internal processes in the different groups that make up the plenary session of Castelldefelense, mainly in the left-wing groupswho have governed during the last two terms and on May 28 suffered losses in the number of representatives.
Thus, throughout these days, the formations have tried to iron out the many rough edges that have arisen throughout the last term with the aim of reissuing a five-party government pact that unseat PP Manu Reyes again, winner of the last four electoral calls in the city. But it has not been possible. In this way, after the absolute majority of Albiol in Badalona, the popular recover its two great Catalan bastions.
“For the Neighbors”
As explained by the president of the PP, Manu Reyes, to this newspaper, both formations have been these days “comparing programs” and “working on a project in favor of Castelldefels”. According to Reyes, the results at the polls of PP and Som expose the “clear will of the majority of the city.”
Thus, the leader of the popular points out that both groups They have found a “huge lace” given that Som is a municipalist party and his is a party with “municipal will” and who has opted for “transversality”.
As EL PERIÓDICO has learned, ‘Nico’ Cerpa will be the first deputy mayor of the new Government of Castelldefels, although Reyes insists that “the important thing is what we are going to do for Castelldefels“.
Cerpa, the key
From the moment the 28M electoral results in Castelldefels were known, it was clear that the Som Castelldefels de ‘Nico’ Cerpa was going to be the key to open the doors of the mayor’s office for the 2023-2024 term, both for one side and for the other.
Cerpa achieved a historic result on May 28 after Som will go from 0 to 3 councilors and be positioned as third force in number of votes -in councilors it ties with the Movem In Comú Podem of the former mayor candela lopez– just behind the PP of Manu Reyes and the PSC of Maria Mirandacurrent mayor.
Already before the municipal ones, from Som they explained that they were going to talk to the two blocks: PP and forces of progress, although they recognized that an agreement with PSC it was more complicated mainly due to the figure of Miranda.
For the municipalities of 2019, ‘Nico’ Cerpa was number three of the PSCbut, at the beginning of this year, left local government between reproaches crossed with the mayoress Maria Miranda, of which Cerpa he distanced himself throughout the term.
Resounding victory for Reyes
Manu Reyes won the elections for the first time in 2011 and thus put an end to the local hegemony of the socialists. Although in the 2015 and 2019 elections Reyes repeated his victory and successively increased the number of votes, since 2011 he had always had eight councilorsaway from the thirteen necessary to reach an absolute majoritywhich has led him to be able to govern for only four years (from 2011 to 2015).
However, Reyes, president of the PP in Barcelona, this 28M was imposed in the city with 42.11% of the ballots -until this 2023 his best mark was 29.28%, in 2019- and his 12 councilors -to one of the absolute majority, which he came to savor during the first minutes of the electoral count-.
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In fact, it is likely that Reyes would have repeated Albiol’s success in Badalona and achieved an absolute majority if ‘Nico’ Cerpa had not also attended, who also capitalized a good part of the dissatisfied vote with the municipal government.
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