The mayoress of Barcelona and BComú candidate, Ada Colau, has drawn up a continuation list for the municipal elections in May with the top 20 candidates, including the deputy mayors Jordi Martí, as number 2, and Janet Sanz, as number 3, as reported by training sources this Saturday.
“It is a parity and continuity list with people who already have a lot of experience within the City Council to consolidate the change in model that we are promoting in the city”, explained the mayoress of Barcelona, ??who is totally convinced of her proposal: “I am more convinced than ever that we can win the next elections”, she added.
After holding eight meetings with activists, Colau has begun to draw up his list, which he presented this Saturday at noon in the auditorium of the Once headquarters and which will be submitted to primaries in March when up to 40 candidates and three substitutes are completed.
Followed by Martí and Sanz, to whom the first mayor renews her confidence after assuming the main responsibilities during the last two terms, the promoter of the Eixample Respira neighborhood platform and the ‘School Revolt’ initiative for the pacification of the school environments, Guille López.
Following the order, there is the Councilor for Health, Gemma Tarafa; the deputy of the commons in Parliament, Jessica González; the Councilor for Housing, Lucía Martín; the Councilor for Citizenship and Participation Rights, Marc Serra; Carolina Recio -who currently works in the Department of Health- the Councilor for Education, Pau González, and the Councilor for Democratic Memory, Jordi Rabassa.
After Rabassa (number 11), there are new numbers that were not on the list for the 2019 municipal elections, which are Lucia Morale, Tània Corrons, Max Cahner, Julià Tudó, Jordi Guillén, Maria Rosa Sans, Santi Serra, Ruth Gabriel and Jordi Ayala.
Colau has drawn up his list conditioned by the limitation of mandates in his code of ethics, which establishes that elected or freely appointed positions must limit their mandate to two legislatures, exceptionally extendable to a third if there is a process of discussion and citizen assessment.
In this way, the plenary will vote this Saturday with a ballot box if the councilors, commissioners or advisers who have been in office since 2015 can continue -as it did with Colau when he decided to run for a third term–, a situation in which finds Sanz, since he will run for his fourth term (third with the communes and a previous one with Iniciativa per Catalunya).
The councilors who were in the same situation are Laura Pérez (current fourth deputy mayor for Social Rights) and Eloi Badia (councilor for Emergency and Ecological Transition), but they have finally decided not to repeat themselves on the list of communes for personal reasons.
