A four-way pact has left the PSC out of the government of the Canet de Mar City Council (Maresme), which in the recent municipal elections has been the most voted political force. Thus, Canetencs, the second force, repeats government with ERC and Som, adding JxCat.
On this occasion, Pere Xirau, leader of Canetencs, who has obtained four councilors, has not enforced the maxim he expressed in the 2019 elections of adding his votes to the most voted force. The criteria, given the result of these elections, has varied and according to a statement, "no party has obtained an absolute majority and the distribution of votes has been very evenly distributed" for which reason Canetencs Independents, ERC, JxCat and Som Canet have decided to reach an agreement to govern for the next four years.
The voters of Canet de Mar in these elections imposed a harsh punishment on the Republicans, who have lost two of the five councilors they had. If it could be interpreted that the message sent by the polls was to proceed to a change in the municipal government, the four parties of the pact have not interpreted it that way, reissuing the Canetencs, ERC and Som coalition, incorporating JxCat, which should not be Obviar is led by a former Republican councilor, Coia Tenas, who left ERC with harsh criticism of the management of the still mayor, Blanca Arbell and the first deputy mayor, now a Republican candidate, Lluís Llovet.
It should be noted that Tenas has also ignored the indications of the Junts leadership, whose agreement preferences passed through the PSC as the most voted force, so as not to distort a foreseeable agreement in the Maresme Regional Council. Nor has the fact that the PP mayor offered his vote, without asking for anything in return, to a bipartite PSC-Canetencs government to prevent ERC from being in government again.
The pact, from the socialist ranks, is considered a "betrayal of Canet voters" that placed Marian Gómez's PSC as the most voted party with 22.16% of the votes and four councilors, the same as Canetencs repeated, who had added 19.33%. The socialist mayor, Marian Gómez, regrets that an ERC-Canetencs government can be reissued, of which she asserts that she "was characterized by not listening to the people."
Regarding the inclusion of the two councilors of JxCat, the socialists observe a dark strategy of "entering the lists of the rival -in crisis due to the break with PDECat- to later offer the government on a silver platter to those who never ceased to be the yours, ERC". From the PSC they remember that they offered Canetencs a government with the two most voted lists and "we maintain it". They declare that "in life you have to have principles and not everything is good for a chair" and therefore "it cannot be that the solution to Canet's problems comes from the same people who have created these problems".
In the statement, Canetencs, ERC, JxCat and Som consider that the formula of a coalition government made up of 10 councillors, most of whom have experience in the previous government, "is positive, plural and guarantees stability". Likewise, they recognize that "it will allow us to give continuity to the policies developed in the last term" although improving "the mechanisms of coordination and government action."
