Friday, March 22 is the date marked on the calendar to vote on the municipal budget project in Barcelona and if before it was difficult for the common people to support the PSC accounts, the early elections in Catalonia have complicated everything even more. Despite this, the mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni, is willing to try and redoubles the pressure to obtain the support of the municipal group of Ada Colau, which added to that of ERC would allow the socialists to have the majority in the municipal plenary session.
“I would like to appeal to those who have not made the Generalitat’s budget possible and, in turn, have caused the Government of Spain to have to withdraw its budgets: that they do not make the same mistake in the city of Barcelona,” he said. Collboni assured during a round table at the PSC congress with other mayors such as that of Sant Boi, Lluïsa Moret, and that of A Coruña, Inés Rey.
Collboni has shown himself in favor of negotiating a government agreement in Barcelona with ERC and the commons in the future, but has insisted that “first the policies are agreed and the budgets are voted on.” If this is not achieved, the mayor has shown himself to be “determined to push the budgets forward by any means possible.”
Without the commons in the equation, the only possible path that the municipal government is heading towards is the question of confidence since the ERC votes are insufficient for the socialists to obtain the majority necessary to approve the 2024 accounts. In them the PSC defends various investments and measures demanded at the time by the community, such as the air conditioning of schools, the installation of 2,000 new charging points for electric cars and the transfer of 17 plots of land to the Generalitat to build public housing.
BComú, for its part, turns a deaf ear to the PSC’s call and insists on its position with a message on networks: “There are six days left for Jaume Collboni to decide if he wants to form a broad left-wing government in Barcelona that will put a stop to the lack of tourist control and regulate seasonal rentals or if you prefer to turn your back on citizens.” All this together with an image that includes a disturbing “Tic-tac” that will mark a long week of bickering until reaching the municipal plenary session next Friday.
