The new mayor of Badalona for the next four years will be the popular Xavier Garcia Albiol, who yesterday apart from receiving a mass bath in Plaça de la Vila, in a clear statement of intentions paraphrased the Andalusian socialist in 1982, Alfonso Guerra: “in four years in Badalona, ??not even the mother who gave birth to her will know her”.
The investiture plenum ratified the overwhelming victory of the PP led by García Albiol, who will have 18 councilors after obtaining 56% of the votes. During his inauguration speech, the popular leader had conciliatory words for an opposition with which he built bridges of dialogue to “seek consensus, without discarding anyone, especially with those who want to work positively” on the city’s major issues. However, he pointed out that for this “priorities must be changed”.
One of the preferences requires transforming the City Council “into a competent administration” without which “it will be impossible to be efficient” to promote planned projects, such as “improving the cleanliness of the city” or affecting insecurity and “the fight against illegal and conflicting occupations”, a statement that received the applause of the two hundred people who met in Plaça de la Vila. He ended his proclamation by addressing the 17 councilors of his formation: “Comrades, we have the responsibility to write the best future for our city, so that no one doubts that we will do it”.
In the interventions of the opposition groups, which were organized from less to more, surprised Dolors Sabater, the only councilor of Guanyem Badalona, ??who announced that she is ceasing her parliamentary activity with the CUP, to which the public gathered outside responded with boos and shouts of “out, out”.
The leader of En Comú Podem, Aïda Llauradó, prayed to the new mayor that “he does not activate a mandate marked by the abuse of power”. For his part, Àlex Montornès, from ERC, wished luck and success to the new mayor, whom he admitted had run a populist campaign with “magical badalonism” and whom he asked not to govern “with a thirst for revenge” .
The former socialist mayor, Rubén Guijarro, took advantage of his intervention to say goodbye to municipal activity and asked his substitute to leave the turbulent years and to “project a positive Badalona and to help the city compete again in the league of big cities”.
