It was the most predictable after municipal elections in which only one councilor was left short of an absolute majority and with a composition of the municipal plenary session that makes an alternative pact unfeasible, but it is already confirmed: the PSC will start the legislature governing alone in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
The party led by the acting mayor of the second city of Catalonia, Núria MarÃn, will start the mandate without reaching a government agreement with any political force. You must seek specific support to execute your policies.
This has been confirmed by the first acting deputy mayor, the socialist Fran Belver, who has met with all the parties with representation in the plenary hall in a round of meetings that ended on Friday. “We are going to the investiture alone, without an agreement for the 17th,” says Belver in statements to La Vanguardia. Next Saturday the municipal plenary session for the constitution of the new Town Hall will be held.
Belver recounts the conversations have been cordial. The PSC reached 13 councilors, one of the absolute majority that it did hold during the last legislature. ERC was the second force with 4 councilors, the same as the PP. Vox and l’Hospitalet en Comú Podem also obtained representation, with three representatives each.
Today, the PSC is very far from ERC, led by Jaume Graells, the former Socialist councilor who denounced the case of alleged corruption of the Consell Esportiu. They are also far from the PP and even more at the opposite end of Vox’s extreme right.
Belver considers l’Hospitalet en Comú Podem “natural partners” and recalls that the PSC and that political space governed l’Hospitalet together between 1997 and 2015. “Since then there has been a parenthesis that has coincided with the leadership of Ana González,” he says. .
The commons are now led by Professor Manuel DomÃnguez, former president of the Center d’Estudis de l’Hospitalet. Beyond the figure of the head of the list, between commoners and socialists there are discrepancies in aspects such as the Granvia transformation plan or the urban development model.
However, Fran Belver believes that “confidence and feeling must be recovered” between the two parties. “We’ll see if it works,” she adds. In no case, will it be before the investiture of Núria MarÃn as mayoress of l’Hospitalet.
