Xavier Trias focuses his plan on a proposal: kick Colau out

Xavier Trias He has served as mayor for almost two months, and this Monday he starred in the act of leaving his pre-campaign, under the motto ‘Barcelona, ​​torna Trias’. A conference in the Oriol Martorell room of the Barcelona Auditorium before members of civil society and friends who are in favor of him, in which he has presented an amendment to the entire management of the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau.

Among the public, past and present leaders of the Junts space and before Convergència, starting with the founder, Jordi Pujol, questioned at the time by Trias himself after he publicly admitted that his family had undeclared money abroad. They were also, among many others, the expresident Artur Mas, Joaquim Forn, Josep Rull, Laura Borràs and Jordi Turull.

Relaxed, playing at home, Trias has even joked about the fact that, after a treatment, his hand no longer shakes, and he has drank water from a bottle: “It’s been years since I could do this.. I would throw her over her.”

Trias has focused his message this Monday on criticizing Colau’s management en bloc, and proposing his return as an alternative. He has not made, however, concrete new-style proposals that can be highlighted. He is the change and the proposal itself.

Or one or the other

Trias has offered to cut Colau’s management completely, retaking, if the polls allow it, the command rod that he held from 2011 to 2015, the year in which he lost at the hands of the current councilor, who is his nemesis and also its programmatic support point, by opposition. This way of publicizing sending the electorate the message that in the municipal elections you have to choose between one of the two. Or Trias or Colau. A message that they sent while having lunch together, through a photo, in a meeting with a theater point, something that often accompanies politics.

Few could predict last May, when Xavier Trias announced that he had no intention of replacing Elsa Artadi as Junts per Catalunya’s candidate in the municipal elections, that the former mayor would by now be leading the polls as the main favourite, even if only by a short distance. with their rivals and in a very open setting. He himself has joked that when he was already in retirement he returned to the political arena.

overall criticism

“This change is possible and we need everyone to do it,” he warned. The former mayor has affirmed that his successor has not solved any of the problems that the city had and has generated others that did not exist, something for which he has blamed the PSC as a partner of the local government and the ERC as an external partner.

“The May elections are going to choose between two different models. To choose heads or tails & rdquor ;, he has proclaimed. “How did we get here? & rdquor ;, he has asked himself. The answer was that it all started when he lost the elections eight years ago, but no one has reminded him.

Trias has stressed that the city is not doing well and has cited the main problems denounced by Colau’s rivals but also by the city council’s own opinion barometers, which reproach the government: security, cleanliness, housing.

Leadership

He has summarized in ten points what he believes must be changed. First of all, he has called for “recovering leadership & rdquor; of the mayor’s office Second, to bet on economic growth: “The government has imposed a discourse that defended degrowth& rdquor ;. That it is something that was like that at the beginning, but that the Colau government has been skirting to the point of betting openly on big events, tourism and economic activity.

Third, he said, the city must function. A point that he has focused on the need to improve cleanliness and reinforce security, which he has regretted has not gotten better after the PSC took over its leadership with Albert Batlle as deputy mayor.

The fourth point of his plan: plan and stop improvising. He has criticized that he “put himself in danger & rdquor; the Eixample of Ildefons Cerda with proposed reforms “without previous studies, without scientific method and without pilot tests & rdquor ;.

living place

At this point he has included Colau’s housing policy, of which he has said that “in large part& rdquor; it has been done based on what he sowed. She has not entered into the disproportion that the mayoress denounces between the promotions promoted by the consistory and those that the Generalitat has made in recent years, for a long time with Junts as a partner of the Government. “I was the first mayor who gave the order that public housing had to be rented & rdquor ;, she stated.

As a fifth point, he has chosen the mobility, a field in which he has denounced “a crusade against the car and the motorcycle & rdquor ;. And although he has defended improving Rodalies and public transport, he has not made it clear if he will reverse everything done over the years.

the mobile

As a sixth point, he cited the commitment to the city of talent, for which he has demanded support and the company that he has missed in Colau’s management. The seventh, the defense of a technological council. To be exact, the dart to Colau in this case has been this: “The city of Mobile cannot have an analogue town hall & rdquor ;.

Trias recalled that in his time the council traveled the world to advertise, to explain that the city was “a Smart City& rdquor ;. After citing the Mobile World Congress and the Audiovisual Congress (ISE), he has stated that “in part & rdquor; Those trips led the city to host these congresses. And here it has grown a bit, because Mobile arrived in the Catalan capital in 2006, when there were five years left before he was mayor, and the ISE announced in 2018 -when he had been out of the consistory for three years- that he would come in 2021 to the city.

The Round of Dalt

Regarding the fight against the climate emergency, the eighth point on his list this Monday, he has assured that Colau’s has been based on “propaganda& rdquor; more than in “real and studied actions & rdquor ;. Among the pending projects he has mentioned recovering the interiors of the Eixample block, which the detractors of the green axes, including the socialist Jaume Collboni, now cite as an alternative.

Trias has also defended covering the Ronda de Dalt, a project pending in almost its entirety that he himself estimated at 400 million euros. He has recalled that at the end of his term there was a pact between groups (CiU and the PSC promoted it) for that coverage, although in fact it was for a limited part. It is not that it cannot be done, but those 400 million suppose more than 10% of the annual budget of the consistory.

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Of the superblocks, he has highlighted that not even the father of the idea recognizes them, alluding to Salvador Rueda. “Painting the streets with colors is easy and relatively fast. Carrying out large urban transformation projects is much more complex & rdquor ;, she has warned.

As the last points of his decalogue, he has put forward the need to make a friendly and inclusive city that cares for people (here he has not included criticism of Colau’s management, he has not cited it on this point) and that Barcelona “returns to be the capital, and the capital of Catalonia& rdquor ;. “We cannot live with our backs turned to others & rdquor ;. A city that does not play “in the second division & rdquor ;. That “play the Champions League and compete with New York, Paris or Amsterdam& rdquor ;.

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