The former mayor of Barcelona, ??Ada Colau, maintains the hope that, in the future and when the general elections are over, the PSC, Comunes and ERC will be able to reach an agreement to govern the city. This is how she has expressed it in an interview on TV3 in which she has also returned to justify her support for the socialist Jaume Collboni in the past full of investiture, for whom, according to what she has said, she voted “with a clip on the nose”.
In this sense, Colau has explained that the decision of the commons to make Collboni mayor responded to a “rational calculation” and has reiterated his argument against the fact that the first mayor was the winner of the elections, Xavier Trias, due to the divergences depths that exist between both city models. Likewise, she has also insisted that the vote with the PP was not agreed, nor did she receive pressure from Madrid to do so. In this way, Colau undermines the support of the popular for Collboni because, in his opinion, he is “irrelevant” since he is not supported by any pact.
The former mayor has compared the “instrumental” support of the PP with the situation four years ago with former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, which allowed Colau to repeat a second term. Thus, she has ensured that Valls’ role was equally “irrelevant” during the time he was a councilor in the Barcelona City Council and that municipal policies were agreed with PSC and ERC.
Regarding the future, the former mayor has said that she remains focused on municipal politics and that her main objective is to “preserve the legacy” of her term as head of the Barcelona City Council. For all this, she continues to bet on a progressive government of PSC, Comunes and ERC, sharing the mayoralty, as she proposed before her inauguration. “With ten councilors, an ultra-minority, you cannot govern, and I know it perfectly because I have lived it,” she said. Thus, she trusts that the Republicans, although she is now not happy with Collboni as mayor, she will be able to enter the municipal government later to continue “defending the policies made up to now.”
He does not give a specific deadline to achieve it, but he says that in any case it will be after the general elections. Asked if she could go to Madrid if she is proposed to be a minister and she does not achieve the municipal tripartite pact, she said that she does not “consider” it, but she did not completely close the door on doing so either.
Regarding the possible pacts in the Barcelona Provincial Council, he stressed that they will seek a left-wing agreement that includes the commons, the PSC, ERC and also the local formation of Tot per Terrassa (TxT). Asked about the possibility of an agreement between the commons and the PP when deciding the future of the Provincial Council, she assured: “I have not heard that anyone raised that scenario.”
And regarding the general elections of 23J, the leader of BComú has defended that her formation has its “own program for Catalonia” and that it includes a referendum on a new relationship proposal between Catalonia and the State, in her words. “It is one thing to be integrated and the other is that the commons continue to be the commons,” he warned, after the presidential candidate, Yolanda Díaz, said that the Sumar-En Comú Podem program does not exist and that the only one that exists is that of add
Colau has claimed that this proposal for territorial organization is raised within the framework of the dialogue table between the Government and the Generalitat and has warned that “obviously, it must be referendum by the Catalans”. He has maintained that the communs have “always defended absolutely the same thing” and has listed the referendum, the opposition to the application of article 155 and the defense of pardons and the reform of the penal code.
