Cheered, applauded, and running together from the main entrance of the auditorium, among fans crowded on either side of the center aisle. This is how yesterday the leader of the Sumar platform, Yolanda Díaz, and the mayoress of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, burst onto the stage of the Palau de Congressos de Montjuïc. They did it on the occasion of a BComú pre-campaign act with a sold-out, which became the staging of personal harmony and the confluence of their political destinies. Acclaimed as two rock stars that had as opening acts the musical performances of Les Fourchetes and the Cor Rebel and the introductory words of Jess González, number six in Colau’s candidacy, who vindicated that Barcelona of “people from different origins who want to live tasty”.

The applause with which the audience welcomed Yolanda Díaz (“President, President!”) did not silence the noise of a group that displayed red banners demanding the concession of Antiga Massana. A small incident that did not prevent Díaz from starting a long speech full of praise for the person and municipal policies of Ada Colau, whom she pointed out as a world reference.

A discourse that he strung together using the figure of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and the diverse and rich Barcelona that he described as a resource. His insistence on repeated occasions that, if he were still alive, “Vázquez Montalbán would be here, supporting Ada Colau” prompted the immediate complaint of his son, also a writer Daniel Vázquez Sallés, who expressed to this newspaper his indignation at “the misappropriation of of the will to vote of a person who has not been here for 20 years”.

Yolanda Díaz highlighted the useful policy of BComú and emphasized the effort in areas in which they have made progress despite not having competencies, such as increasing housing or improvements in dental health assistance or psychological treatment for people who need it. required by some disorder. And from the allusion to the supposed political position of Vázquez Montalbán, Díaz turned at the end of his speech to another literary reference, The City of Wonders, by Eduardo Mendoza, which he used to allude to the confrontation between the Barcelona that advances beyond of the walls, in which he sees reflected the concern of Colau and the policies he promotes, “always with the people at the center”, and those of Xavier Trias, whom he placed within the walls, “anchored in the past”. The mayoress, as the leader of Sumar, highlighted the importance of the upcoming elections and called for the mobilization of working people to continue advancing in a “policy to improve people’s lives and for a better future.”