The former mayor and leader of BComú in Barcelona City Council, Ada Colau, said this Saturday that she plans to continue in the City Council and has ruled out being a candidate in this year's European elections.
In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the leader of Comuns expressed her willingness to continue working for the city "in whatever position." "It's a yes in Barcelona, I'm staying for the city and for a transformation project," she said.
Asked if she will repeat as a candidate for the municipal elections, Colau said that there is still a lot of time, but she does not rule it out. "We will decide with my municipal group, because we still do not know what scenarios will occur," she responded.
Colau has explained that she considered being a minister because her political space suggested it, but she rejected it because she does not come from institutional politics nor has she come to it to hold positions: "I have ruled out being a minister. Maybe some wanted me to leave. ".
He has also said that BComú's city model was clear during his mayoralty, and this mandate will continue to be that way: "We will not do this with Junts. We can do this with the PSC and with ERC."
Socialists and BComú would add 20 of the 21 councilors that represent the absolute majority in Barcelona if the PSC municipal government undertakes a pact in this mandate, so they would be obliged to reach an absolute majority with ERC, while a PSC-Junts pact would It would reach 21 councilors.
The former mayor regrets Collboni's "winks" with Trias and has said that this means "looking to the right and a more conservative vision of the city." For her, if Mayor Jaume Collboni agreed with Junts it would mean "going back to the past and stopping the transformation that Barcelona was undergoing."
"To maintain the transformation of the city we must maintain a three-party proposal, which is what we have always proposed to the PSC."
Colau has described the situation of the current socialist government alone as weakness: "I don't see new things starting, and I think Barcelona cannot afford it."
Regarding whether a pact with the socialists can lead her to have government functions and even be deputy mayor, she has reiterated that her project is to continue in Barcelona: "In whatever (function) that may be."
Colau has compared Junts to Vox because he considers that its position on immigration is "a drift towards extreme right-wing positions that break coexistence."
"When he says that Catalonia must manage immigration and the phrase he says next is associating immigration with crime, this is what Vox does," he said.
For this reason, he believes that "Catalonia must respond and must stand up to this drift that Junts is making", and added that Catalonia has always been, for the most part, a land of welcome and diversity, seen as a cultural, social and talent wealth.
