The mayoress Ada Colau made a show of a political waist every day more agile and loose. The BCómú candidate participated in the sixth and last of the colloquiums organized by the Barcelona Oberta merchants association, the Barcelona Restauration Gremi and La Vanguardia. And as soon as she sat down, she praised the role of shops and bars in preserving the identity and cohesion of neighborhoods, and she also delightedly celebrated the idyll of Barcelona and the Mobile World Congress! She even applauded the America’s Cup and the growing number of Michelin stars in the city! Yes, the same mayoress who some time ago said that if Mobile left nothing would happen and that big events are not the way. “This more diversified projection interests us all.”
In fact, the mayoress took advantage of the third to point out that in truth the origin of the war on the terraces of this city was the ordinance of watchmen elaborated at the time by the executive of Xavier Trias, and that it was their governments who were in charge of redirecting the situation and find a consensus that ultimately helped us all to overcome a moment as dramatic as the pandemic. What happens is that in this city the lobbies are tremendously kind to politicians, especially when they act as hosts. They have a hard time putting the knife between their teeth. And in a very curious way, the words of the attending businessmen barely matched their expressions. In addition, neither merchants nor restaurateurs wanted to treat the BComú candidate with more reluctance than the rest of the mayors.
And when considering questions of such importance as the hours of the terraces or the accessibility of the city center, to give some examples, the mayoress Colau did not show signs of considering any other roadmap and invited everyone to sign with the residents of the city and their movements a new social pact in favor of coexistence, and also to put an end to the excesses of some businesses that disturb it so much. “We want to create a permanent table in favor of this pact – she added Colau -, where neighbors, merchants and restaurateurs meet.”
In the end, Colau made it very clear that if he wins the elections, he will continue the path he started. And with a seductive smile, and not her fingernails, as so many times in the past in forums very similar to this one, she said that the happy influx of people in the city center on the last Sant Jordi proves that her policy of pedestrianizations and restrictions to private vehicles, nor do they discourage residents of the metropolitan area from coming to Barcelona, ​​nor do they strangle commerce. “Regulations with dialogue are the tool to guarantee growth and the protection of our diversity.”
It was rather at the end, when the attendees took the floor, the businessmen did make their opinions and, above all, their feelings more clearly understood. Yes, the city has to be regulated, that regulations are necessary… But that they don’t run fast food restaurants or globalized shops, that they are also part of Barcelona, ​​that they are not executives of huge brands or anything like that. that… and that they are already tired of the local administration putting so many sticks in their wheels, that they need a little love and complicity.
