The list that will be headed by the socialist candidate for mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni, in the elections of 28-M has received the green light this Thursday from the council of the federation of the Catalan capital of the PSC. Jordi Valls, director general of Mercabarna, who will be number nine, stands out as a novelty.
Valls was mayor of his hometown, Manresa, between 1995 and 2006, Minister of Labor and Industry in 2006 and president of the port of Barcelona from that same year until 2010. Later he joined the private sector, occupying different responsibilities in the group suez. Since October 2020, he is the general director of Mercabarna.
In addition, Collboni has incorporated Marta Villanueva, at number six, and Raquel Gil, at number ten. The first works in the management of nursing services in the ICU of the Hospital Clínic, and the second is the commissioner for Employment Promotion and Policies against Precariousness of the Barcelona City Council and is part of the secretariat of the UGT of Catalonia where she deals with the areas of equality, social policies and support for the unemployed.
The socialist mayor will continue to count on his electoral list councilors who have accompanied him in the municipal government in recent years, such as David Escudé, mayor of Sports and Sant Martí, who will be number five; Rosa Alarcón, councilor of Horta-Guinardó (8); Xavier Marcé, councilor for Tourism and Creative Industries and Nou Barris (11) and Joan Ramon Riera, councilor for Children, Youth, the Elderly and the Disabled and Les Corts (13).
The candidacy that Collboni will lead has numbers that have already been announced, such as Maria Eugènia Gay, former dean of the Bar Association and former delegate of the Government in Catalonia, who will be number two; Laia Bonet, current third deputy mayor (3); Albert Batlle, of United for Avançar, party allied with the PSC and deputy mayor of Security and councilor of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, who will repeat in the fourth; and Lluís Rabell, ex-neighborhood activist and ex-deputy in the Parliament for Catalunya yes es Can, who will occupy number seven.
