Jaume Collboni has not won the elections but arithmetic allows him to run for mayor of Barcelona. Aware of this, he does not throw in the towel, quite the contrary. "The PSC does not give up anything, we have the opportunity and the duty to open a new stage of progress and stability," said the socialist candidate by guaranteeing the ten councilors when he concluded 100% of the tight scrutiny. It also did so, emphasizing that the PSC has become "the first progressive force in the city of Barcelona", a city that, according to Collboni, "has very clearly voted to start a new phase and has voted progressive". .
Although it is a scenario that he had ruled out during the campaign if he did not win the elections, now it is more symptomatic than ever the memory of the time of the socialist mayors that Collboni has had in recent days, with the former mayors Joan Clos and Jordi Hereu having a very active role It is not something trivial since both governed for a few years with ERC and ICV, the formation that later joined the commons. Regaining the support of both formations in a left-wing pact led by the PSC that would serve to confront Trias is one of the options that began to be considered last night in the Socialists' engine room. The sum would make it possible, another thing is that there is a will on the part of the other parties, which must first internally manage the harsh corrective received at the polls.
For the time being, those of Collboni have in their favor the fact of having two more councilors than four years ago and having narrowly surpassed Ada Colau, who has gone from being the majority force to being in third position, below the socialists. All in all, second place represents a bitter disappointment for a candidate who came out to play with everything since he left the municipal government in January to distance himself from a Colau against which he established himself as an alternative and to which he now needs to turn if he wants to be mayor. .
The good results in the tight polls in recent weeks made the PSC dream of recovering the mayoralty twelve years after precisely Trias ended the historic socialist hegemony that governed the city for decades. Just as Trias' victory was clear at that time, in the halls of the City Hall everyone remembers how in 2015 those still converging at the time acknowledged defeat and threw in the towel on election night, thus closing the doors to some kind of coalition agreement. that might have been doable in the days after. Precisely for this reason, Collboni yesterday did the opposite and left everything open while he was chanted to the cry of "mayor" by those present at the PSC headquarters on Pallars street.
The skills of the Socialists to devise municipal agreements were demonstrated four years ago, when they convinced Valls to make Colau mayor, which shows that anything can happen in Barcelona until the constitution of the City Council on Saturday, June 17.
