The same proposal that Jaume Collboni launched after the end of the election count remains the preferred option of the socialists almost two weeks later: a coalition government led by the PSC with the commons and republicans, which would add 24 councilors, a comfortable integrated majority by the three progressive formations of the City Council. To seal this offer until the last moment, Collboni has made it clear that he will maintain his candidacy for the investiture and extends his hand to dialogue and negotiations to form a tripartite that will make possible an alternative majority to Trias, although right now those of Ernest Maragall are not for work or to sit down to negotiate.
“The PSC remains faithful to the commitment to its voters, the commitment to realize the majority mandate of May 28 and the dream of the vast majority of progressive voters”, Jaume Collboni defended yesterday at the federation council of the PSC Barcelona, ​​where he was greeted by the locals with the shout of “mayor”. There, the socialist candidate spoke again in public after a sepulchral silence since the day of the elections that only briefly interrupted the meeting of the Economic Circle and which contrasts with the constant verbiage of the other candidates, especially of the still mayoress Ada Colau.
Collboni’s pressure was directed especially at Ernest Maragall’s party: “If the independence front’s thesis succeeds, with between 11 and 16 councilors, Barcelona would be condemned to ungovernability and gridlock”, lamented the leader of the PSC in the capital Catalan, describing the possibility of Trias being mayor as “a step backwards in overcoming the conflict and bloc politics that Catalonia has experienced”.
The socialist candidate combined criticism of the attitude of the republicans with an outstretched hand to form a government, an option that seemed feasible on election night itself, but which the calling of general elections the next day already complicated and the day by day it has deflated due to the attitude of the Republicans. Yesterday he reminded them again that “Barcelona is asking for change, it doesn’t want more confrontation, what it wants is to look to the future with confidence and optimism”.
Collboni made no reference to the PP, another option that has been put on the table in recent days. The only thing he made clear is that, with such an even and open result, they will continue to talk to everyone except the ultra-right.
