The municipal group of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in the Barcelona City Council has admitted today that in recent days conversations with the city’s mayor, the socialist Jaume Collboni, have intensified to discuss the governability of the city.
The president of the ERC group, Elisenda Alamany, has thus echoed, in a press conference called this morning, the information published today in La Vanguardia according to which Collboni has included the Republicans, until recently absent , in the talks for the expansion of the municipal government and that these contacts are very much on track.
Alamany noted that it is “too early” to affirm that ERC will enter the government. “We don’t know how (the talks) will end, if they will accelerate or stop,” said the Republican councilor.
In contacts with the mayor, according to ERC, the debate on the “city model” has been raised. Esquerra insists on three principles: a government that practices progressive policies, the need to preserve Barcelona’s own identity and for the city to serve as the capital of Catalonia.
The contacts with the PSC have, according to ERC, nothing to do with Collboni’s proposal to hand over to his potential government partners the figure of the “night mayor”, a figure that was already contemplated in the electoral program precisely in ERC in the 2019 municipal elections, which Ernest Maragall won, and in 2023. In any case, Alamany stated that his party “does not renounce being a protagonist” in the Barcelona City Council.
