The still mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, will not be on the list that the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda DÃaz, can set up with Sumar for the general elections called for next July 23. Colau’s decision, confirmed by La Vanguardia, is not a novelty, according to her team, since it is something that the municipal candidate had been assuring “for months”, but the fact of maintaining this decision after the poor results is a novelty. obtained last Sunday, in the municipal elections.
Sources close to Colau point out that Colau “is focused on Barcelona” and on forming a “progressive government” in the city, as the mayoress pointed out on election night. To do this, Barcelona en Comú has already established the first contacts with the PSC of Jaume Collboni and the Republican Ernest Maragall, they say.
Conversations to configure the Sumar list have already started at the highest level. Yolanda DÃaz already began contacts this Monday with different political groups to advance in the formation of the future coalition and the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, very close to Colau, remarked this Tuesday that “there is no time for distractions” to constitute this coalition .
For now, Yolanda DÃaz’s Sumar platform has registered an “instrumental party” called the Sumar Movement to facilitate convergence and “to be able to guarantee the participation of independent and professional people.” IU, Alianza Verde and Verdes Equo have already announced their incorporation into this platform.
The commons will be one of the important pieces of the puzzle that must be assembled around Yolanda DÃaz to build a candidacy for unity among all the parties located to the left of the PSOE. Before the appointment of July 23, Catalunya en Comú must contribute its grain of sand and form a candidacy in Catalonia. For this, the commons and Podem will also have to agree in a few days, but sources from the purple coalition assure that this work is still “green” and they even see it as difficult for it to be settled this week.
