Pebble stands as an alternative to Albiol to avoid a gray and isolated city

The mayor of Badalona and PSC candidate for re-election, Rubén Guijarro, presented his project for the 2023 municipal elections on Tuesday, directly pointing to the popular candidate, Xavier Garcia Albiol, as the rival to beat.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
08 November 2022 Tuesday 12:31
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Pebble stands as an alternative to Albiol to avoid a gray and isolated city

The mayor of Badalona and PSC candidate for re-election, Rubén Guijarro, presented his project for the 2023 municipal elections on Tuesday, directly pointing to the popular candidate, Xavier Garcia Albiol, as the rival to beat. "We must be clear about the Badalona to which we do not want to return", he snapped and then defined in a long string of disqualifications the model that Albiol represents for the socialists. Guijarro thus stands as an alternative so that there is "never again" a Badalona turned into a "media circus" or a mayor "with businesses in a tax haven". “Never again the shame, never again the right, nor Ayuso's, nor Feijoó's, nor Albiol's. Never again the Popular Party in Badalona”, he stated vehemently.

In this sense, Guijarro asks the people of Badalona not to "infect the discouragement or pessimism" of the Badalona "isolated, gray and without a future" that according to him Albiol represents. It is necessary, says the mayor, that the residents believe in the "unstoppable transformation" that he, he assures, has initiated the city in his last year in office. The mayor stands as a representative of Badalona "proud, unstoppable, optimistic and self-confident". A year ago, he says, that he has dedicated himself to removing "the layers of earth that some and others have overturned" in order to "rediscover" a "positive Badalona" that contrasts the city "without a future" of the predecessor of the.

Guijarro has defined Albiol as a mayor "who entrenches himself in lies" and who puts his personal interests ahead of the interests of the city. He has also reproached him for "every day he speaks ill of the city" and that he has become an "ambassador who discredits the city with a tweet."

During his speech, Guijarro has also brought out the work of government in the last year of this tumultuous mandate. The socialist leader endorses the unblocking of the Gorg canal project, the remodeling of the promenade to the Torrent de Vallmajor or Badalona's involvement in the Tres Xemeneies hub project. On a smaller scale, the current mayor of Badalona also vindicates the promotion of the social and economic reconstruction plan that derives from the pandemic or the improvements in citizen security, an area that will once again be a battle horse in the electoral campaign in May. .

In this sense, Guijarro has reminded Albiol that the current government will launch a unit to fight against illegal employment, while others "fill their mouths" talking about insecurity. "We govern with facts, not by tweeting!" exclaimed the socialist leader.

“It is costing us a lot to remake ourselves of that image. Recreating in this black Badalona has weighed us down too much”, laments Guijarro, who has focused a good part of the speech on discrediting Albiol's leadership: “It is very irresponsible. Whoever hurts this negative image is in the city and its people”. The socialist candidate has appealed to neighborhood associations, sports clubs, the business community, social entities or commerce to make the "unstoppable" and "positive" Badalona a reality and put an end to the "noise" in politics Badalona