JxCat is considering sanctioning with three plenary sessions without intervening the five deputies who on Wednesday will skip the voting discipline in the Parliament in the vote on the Bird Market on La Rambla.
Specifically, three Junts deputies did not vote (Aurora Madaula, Joan Canadell and Francesc de Dalmases) and two others voted against (Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas and Cristina Casol), while the rest of the Junts deputies voted in favor of the amendments. to the entire project presented by PSC and commons.
The majority of the five deputies are close to the president of Junts, Laura Borràs, and some of them, like Dalmases and Madaula, are part of her most trusted circle.
The initiative, which had collected more than 56,000 signatures, proposed that public administrations protect the stops of former birdkeepers, who since 2009 have been dedicated to selling food and tourist items, among others, and who, according to the transformation plan of The Rambla of Barcelona City Council is scheduled to be dismantled.
This morning, the leader of the JxCat parliamentary group, Albert Batet, called the five deputies to his office, who attended the meeting one by one, in which the spokesperson, Mònica Sales, was also present, and informed them his intention to sanction them with three plenary sessions.
However, internal contacts are taking place between the leadership in the Parliament and those affected to try to redirect the situation and prevent the sanction from materializing, the aforementioned sources add.
On Wednesday, after the vote in Parliament, Batet himself verbalized out loud in the chamber that "there will be sanctions", words that were heard by several deputies from Junts and other groups present in the chamber.
The aforementioned sources explain that these five deputies broke voting discipline by disagreeing with JxCat's change of position, since, until Wednesday morning, the group chose to vote against the amendments.
But, after a request from the municipal group of Trias per Barcelona, Junts decided to change its position and vote in favor of the amendment in its entirety.
