The PSC candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Colloni, replied this Saturday to the mayor Ada Colau to give "fair lessons" on possible post-election pacts because she "has agreed twice" with the right.
In an interview in La Vanguardia, Colau reproached the PSC and ERC for having "opened the door" to agree with the Junts candidate, Xavier Trias. Collboni has reminded her that she was sworn in for her second term thanks to an "agreement" with Manuel Valls' group and has assured that Colau and Trias have reached an agreement "to veto the PSC's passage to electoral victory" .
"Fair lessons, because to give lessons there must have been a coherent behavior," he said at the ceremony to commemorate Women's Day that the PSC held at its headquarters in Barcelona with the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda , Raquel Sanchez; the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, and the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet.
The mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Núria Marín, also attended; that of Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona), Lluïsa Moret; that of Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona), Filo Cañete and Congresswoman Sonia Guerra, as well as other mayors and party candidates for mayor of different Catalan municipalities.
Collboni has pointed out that Colau has not been consistent because he has agreed "not once, but twice with the right" during his last term, and has made reference to the meeting between Colau and the Junts candidate for Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, in a restaurant in Barcelona.
In 2019, Collboni has said, Colau "agreed with the right for her investiture", since "she did not win the elections", but she could be "invested thanks to the agreement" with the Manuel Valls group.
And more recently, Colau and Trias allowed themselves to be photographed "in an exclusive restaurant in the center of the city, to agree on the campaign, with the aim of vetoing the PSC's passage to electoral victory," he denounced.
According to Collboni, "agreements are good, the city is a great pact where men and women decide to live together", so reaching agreements "is not imposing, it is not pointing out who thinks differently, it is not governing against anyone".
"Agreeing is not bad, especially when you have a very divided political map," insisted Collboni, who recalled that he does not set "entry red lines" for anyone, except "the most radical."
He has also reproached the commons for their rejection of the large infrastructure projects defended by the PSC to "put Catalonia and Barcelona on track."
In this sense, he has remarked that Colau's team wants to promote a "superblock with 22 pacified axes" in l'Eixample, a large project that "costs 1,100 million euros", an amount that the socialist mayor would prefer to allocate to "finishing the subway lines".
In his speech, Collboni presented his proposal for a "pact for labor equality in the technology sector", with a set of measures to promote female talent in leading productive sectors and reduce the wage gap with aid for training and the creation of new job positions.
Among these measures, it has proposed allocating 15.5 million euros from the budget to carry out training programs, project incubation or job promotion
