The Baix Llobregat County Council’s government is expanding. This Monday ERC has signed the agreement to become part of the executive until now made up of the PSC, Junts y los comunes. In this way, the supramunicipal administration will have the same responsibilities as the Metropolitan Area of ??Barcelona (AMB).
ERC will have a vice-presidency and will manage the portfolios of Sexual and Gender Diversity and Adapted Transport, which will be led by the councilor and councilor of Viladecans, Bárbara Lligadas. The Regional Council of Baix Llobregat is chaired by the mayoress of Vallirana, Eva Martínez (PSC).
The agreement has been signed by Antoni Poveda, representing the PSC; and Eduard Suárez, representing ERC. The agreement, as explained by the Regional Council in a statement, is “for the benefit of all citizens and the 30 municipalities of Baix Llobregat.” The government wants to be an “example of consensus and positive policy, presided over by dialogue and, despite differences, a government that puts the needs of those who live in the region at the center.”
Suárez has celebrated a “broad and plural agreement that reflects the diversity of the region.” According to the president of ERC in Baix Llobregat and l’Hospitalet, “with the incorporation of the second party in the region to the Regional Council government, an anomaly is corrected.” ERC has argued that “historically it had been part of the Regional Council government and currently this situation did not exist.”
“Despite having an absolute majority, from the PSC of Baix Llobregat we want an even stronger government that is representative of the political pluralism that exists in our region,” said socialist Antoni Poveda, first secretary of the regional PSC federation.
The agreement in Baix Llobregat is made public on the same day that the PSC and ERC have signed an agreement for Barcelona’s budgets, which includes everything from investments in the Besòs and mountain neighborhoods to a Catalan language office.