With two days to go before the majority of the councils are constituted, in the municipalities of the Maresme the possible pacts are taking shape, some of them still open, such as an eventual socio-vergence that the PSC is exploring in Mataró or a minority JxCat government in Vilassar de Mar. Below we detail most of the agreements:
The current mayor of Mataró, the socialist David Bote, will revalidate his position with a government that his formation hopes will be as stable as possible and for which he will try to open ways of agreement to reinforce his majority with JxCat and En Comú Podem.
The local PSC group has held an extraordinary assembly this week to give the green light to the possibility of exploring ways in agreement with these two formations with the aim of reinforcing a socialist majority of 11 councilors, 3 from the absolute one.
A pact with JxCat would mean that an eventual government coalition would reach 14 councilors and an absolute majority, while the commitment to the commons – which would reissue the alliance that has led the consistory for the last 4 years – would leave them with a councillor.
With or without an agreement, there is no alternative majority that can unseat Bote, who began as the first mayor of the capital of Maresme in 2015, given the fragmentation and diversity of an opposition that makes any type of alternative pact unfeasible.
On the possibility of a socio-vergence in Mataró, JxCat regional sources have explained that they are studying it, although they have highlighted the good harmony with the PSC and have indicated that the agreement may come to fruition.
Another of the Maresme municipalities where the PSC will govern is Pineda de Mar, the town of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, where the Socialists do not require any pact, having revalidated the comfortable absolute majority, with almost two thirds of the plenary. The current mayor, Xavier Amor, will reissue in front of the Pineda town hall with 13 representatives, before an opposition that totals eight councilors as a whole -4 from ERC, 2 from JxCat, 1 from the PP and 1 from the Commons-.
Another of the municipalities that will change color will be Vilassar de Mar, where the party of the current mayor Damià del Clot (ERC), which has not run for re-election, has gone from being the most voted candidate to the fourth force with only three councilors In Vilassar de Dalt, Carola Llauró will repeat, from Ara for Vilassar de Dalt, who won a comfortable victory with six councilors.
JxCat, led by Laura Martínez Portell, will win the mayoralty by the minimum after the PSC has not lent itself to a left-wing tripartite with the Babord and ERC candidacy, which would add eleven councilors, compared to nine in the party that won the elections and one from the PP, which would make 10.
ERC has won in El Masnou with six councilors, although without a sufficient majority and with an arithmetic that allows an alternative government, in a consistory where the second force is the local candidacy Fem Masnou (4), which is tied in councilors with the PSC -which Predictably, they will agree again to make Jaume Oliveras (ERC) mayor – and with JxCat, while the PP enters with 2 and the Comuns get 1.
Tots per Argentona has been the force with the most votes in Argentona and has obtained five councilors, so everything indicates that the pact will go through the two JxCat councilors so that the new mayoress is Montserrat Capdevila.
In Cabrils, the Republican Maite Viñals, despite losing a councilor from the five she had in the previous mandate, as she points out due to the high abstention and disaffection of the electorate in politics, will renew the mayor’s office by re-editing the pact with Municipalists for Cabrils and ex-convergent Lina Morales, from Together for Cabrils.
Change of rod in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres. The current mayor, Nani Mora (ERC) will be relegated to the opposition after losing five of the nine councilors and will cede control to the socialist and local police officer of the municipality, Àlex Neira. The new government will be formed by the PSC, which won five councilors with three from the PP and Josep Ruiz, from Acord Per Llavaneres.
In Malgrat de Mar, the PSC, which has kept the five councilors, will once again have Sònia Viñolas as mayor thanks to the pact with Jofre Serret, of Ara Pacte Local (PDECat), which obtained three councilors. For the moment, the two parties will govern in the minority.
In Teià, Gent de Teià and Compromís amb Teià, plus ERC, have reached an agreement to govern the next four years and with all probability Gemma Rossell will be the next mayor to lead the most voted force, replacing the republican Andreu Bosch, who he has not presented himself again.
Also a replacement in Tordera, Junts per Catalunya maintains the mayoralty, which will pass into the hands of Elisabet Mejías, who replaces Joan Carles García, whose party has maintained the five councilors and is the force with the most votes, for which reason the government will agree with the two of More Tordera.
In Dosrius, the socialist Sílvia Garrido will be mayor again with five councilors. He will repeat the pact with JxCat led by Pere Rovira, who also keeps his two councilors. In Òrrius, ERC has lost its hegemony and hands over to Xavier Masgrau, from JxCat.
They will also repeat the agreement in all probability in Montgat, PSC, JxCat and Som Montgat, despite the fact that ERC has been the most voted force and has repeated the candidate with Rosa Funtané. ERC has obtained four councilors, losing one; Andy Absil’s PSC has added one and has four and Mercè Marín from JxCat has kept the three mayors, the same as Som from Raúl Abad.
Francesc Alemany, from ERC, will continue to be mayor of Palafolls despite having lost one of the seven councilors of the previous term and in all probability he will agree to a majority with the two councilors of Som Palafolls, leaving the five councilors of the PSC aside.
The Republican Marc Almendro, from Alella, is one of the two ERC candidates in the Maresme that has added one more councilor, obtaining the eight that give him options to maintain the mayoralty, one from the absolute one. The same circumstance in Arenys de Munt with Josep Sánchez, where ERC has maintained the six councilors and could repeat the government with the only one from the CUP.
Sant Cebrià is another of the few towns in which ERC has increased in number of councillors. Albert Pla has obtained five representatives who do not validate the majority to repeat the agreement with JxCat of Eduard Marqueño, who has kept a councilor.
Montserrat Garrido, from Junts per Catalunya, will once again be mayor of Sant Pol de Mar after four years with six councilors, given the fall of the ERC, which has lost one of the four councilors, and the CUP, which has also dropped one, so they will not be able to reissue the pact.
