The 28-M electoral race is accelerating. This was certified yesterday by the mayor of the PSC in Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, who reproached BComú’s re-election candidate, Ada Colau, for giving “lessons of progressivism”, when she is “mayor without having won the elections and thanks to the centre-right vote”. He said this after an event at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he presented his plan to strengthen the external role of the Catalan capital.
Collboni regretted the words of Colau, who criticized that his former partner in the City Council added “to the opinions of stopping everything” and of the “approach” to Junts’ candidate, Xavier Trias. “My answer will be, every time they talk to me about pacts, program, program and program. I say this because Mrs. Colau gives lessons in progressivism and is mayor without having won the elections and thanks to Mr. Valls’ center-right vote”, Collboni pointed out, after an event in the Eurochamber, in which he defended the ” international program” for Barcelona.
“These statements catch me working, in Brussels, on a pre-campaign day in which I am making proposals, setting the ideas and goals I have as the new mayor, if I am elected,” he explained. For Collboni right now there is a “dichotomy between past and future. “Two people [Trias and Colau] who already had their chance, and someone who bursts in with new initiatives”, he argued.
The socialist candidate believes that the last 12 years since his party has not led the City Council of the Catalan capital have been a period “of hiatus, sad and disappointing”, in which the city has been less present on an external scale. “Barcelona must return to Brussels, to recover the geopolitical role in the Euro-Mediterranean framework that it already had in the past” and “make better use of resources in favor of the two major challenges we face, the ecological transition and the digital one”.
On this subject, he marked his position on the future of the super-blocks in the Eixample and recovering 30 gardens inside the buildings. “We defend what is most natural, logical and organically possible (…) without forcing mobility, and without being invasive with the structure that Eixample has”, he explained. Finally, he also argued his commitment to the expansion of El Prat airport, because “confronting economic growth and ecological transition is a debate that leads nowhere”.
