The mayor of JxCat to the mayor’s office of the Barcelona City Council, Xavier Trias, has intervened forcefully in the National Council of his formation that was held this morning. The candidate has regretted that the pact that has left him without the mayor’s office has arisen from “a strategy to eliminate me, as they already did in 2015 and later in 2019 with Maragall” so that, in this way, “they can continue to control us from Madrid ”. Therefore, he has called for “a united front to go all together.”
The Junts candidate, winner of the municipal elections, has dedicated a resounding “fuck them!” to those who have taken the mayoralty of Barcelona “with bad arts”. “We created a very positive agreement” that has not been able to materialize because, he affirmed, “they have charged it in bad ways.”
Trias, who was openly hurt and betrayed by the PSC, BComú and PP pact, lamented that all this strategy materializes in the City Council “because they want to keep us under control.” He has also revealed that Jaume Collboni proposed to split the mayoralty. “Collboni wanted us to submit and break up the government and I told him no way.”
The mayor called on Junts supporters to “fight against this”, against those who he is convinced want to “seek confrontation” and asked, especially the Junts candidate for the next general elections, Míriam Nogueras, to maintain “a intelligent confrontation” with the Spanish government.
“We have to be able to win, without anger or resentment” although he warned that as a result of the Barcelona pact “a new feeling has been awakened” and for this reason, he said, “we must get off the donkey” those who make a policy of “confrontation and not of the dialogue”.
Xavier Trias also advanced that his party maintains the predisposition to “seek collaborations” but he specified that it is always necessary to avoid that, as has happened in Barcelona, ??“they humiliate us and make us even more dependent”. And, at the risk of being misinterpreted, he stated that “our problem is not independence, it is the humiliating dependence” on the Spanish government, which in Barcelona has materialized with a surprising pact to govern the City Council.
Questioned by the candidate for mayor of Barcelona, ??Míriam Nogueras, she expressed her solidarity with the people of Barcelona who “will have to suffer a puppet government, supervised from Madrid.” The Junts parliamentarian warned that “the project for the country is at risk” and that the future of Catalonia “does not go to the right or to the left, but to the Kingdom of Spain or Catalonia”.
