“We are looking for a night mayor for the city of Barcelona. Reason, ask for Jaume Collboni at the urban guard at the door of the City Hall, at number 1 Plaça de Sant Jaume, and he will tell you where you can leave your resume.”
This could be an advertisement in the Sunday La Vanguardia classifieds if these types of claims that, years ago, were so recurrent and indispensable were still published in the newspaper. Now, any message is transmitted through the internet, apps or social networks. Or in an interview in some media. This is how Collboni has launched this bait this week to see if he would bite any of the parties with which he could share the governance of the city so as not to be so much in the minority (Junts, BComú and ERC).
Barcelona needs a mayor at night, because, in theory, it already has one during the day who says that one (or one) is needed for nighttime hours. It is assumed that Collboni is sleeping when the sun goes down, unlike vampires, and that, therefore, he cannot wield his staff 24 hours a day. He has to pass it on to someone else, like it’s a relay race. No one can work so hard without falling down, exhausted. Something understandable.
But it is unfair that the mayor of Barcelona limits only the councilors of the parties with whom he wants to agree on the right to be mayor at night. A public call should be made so that any Barcelonan could apply for this job offer. What qualities should any applicant have? Well, surely, none in particular, nor do you have to have any unusual qualities to exercise municipal politics.
There should be no more restriction than a person of legal age, more than anything because minors are not supposed to be awake at night, living in the city, wanting to have all the police forces and all the services under their command. municipal from dusk until the sun rises again. The salary, of course, would be quite an attraction, since a mayor’s (or mayor’s) job at night in Barcelona is well paid (and supposedly with an extra for additional night shifts). And if, in addition, she works on Saturday and Sunday nights, another plus, not only because she works on the weekend, but because on those nights there is more work because there are more parties and public safety problems.
The Barcelona City Council approved raising the salary of the mayor and councilors by 4%, with which Collboni began to earn 104,000 euros, while a government councilor, 87,913, and one from the opposition, 58,642. The logical thing is that the night mayor, therefore, earns more than 104,000 euros with all the nighttime supplements and extras for weekend nights. Controlling drinking and trouble in the street well deserves an economic incentive. Who wouldn’t want this job if Mayor Collboni decided to make an open call so that any Barcelonan could apply for this newly created job? Barcelona Activa could centralize the entire selection process to find the ideal candidate. Or, better yet, an Operación Triunfo-style program could be broadcast on municipal television Betevé so that the public could discard profiles until only one remained: the Chosen One, who would be our Collboni at Night.
Without a doubt, this is the best idea of ??this legislature, the best thing that has happened since that initial “que us bombin!” of Xavier Trias after being removed from the mayor’s office in extremis by Collboni. We already said it then, the Catalan capital is since that day the modern version of the “piquiponados” of the unique mayor Pich i Pon. This would have been a good night battle, just like that legendary Joan Clos dancing with Carlinhos Brown. Good ‘ol times! That’s where it all started!…
