The alternatives to Xavier Trias taking over the mayoralty of Barcelona seem more complicated every day. The popular Daniel Sirera put all his cards on the table this Friday, and the truth is that we should be grateful for his clarity in these ambiguous post-election days, where it is usual for each statement to always be accompanied by some nuance. But his proposal requires an unusual carambola.
If the socialist Jaume Collboni wants to be the next mayor of Barcelona, Sirera said yesterday, he has to convince Ada Colau and the rest of the commons to support him in the investiture session for the next mayor, and then to step back or one side – whatever they prefer – and definitively renounce being part of the city government. The commons cannot assume any responsibility, the mayor of the PP abounded. “It is the message that the people of Barcelona transmitted on 28-M”. And the Republicans are also on the other side of this red line, he added.
And if the socialist reaps the necessary support, the PP would give him its votes at the investiture session and then they would study a possible entry of the popular in the municipal executive. "If Collboni is willing to speak and guarantees, perhaps before a notary, because you can never trust the Socialists, that Colau and ERC will not be in the government, I can sit down and talk with him."
Yes, the feasibility of Sirera's proposal seems very complicated. But the popular does not consider it impossible. In fact, he understands that the socialist is not throwing all the meat on the grill, that in reality he has already given up the mayoralty for lost, that he would have to get his act together and convince everyone he has to convince. According to Sirera, in these post-election negotiations, on too many fronts, personal interests are taking on misplaced importance. He says that a good part of the mayors are more concerned about their personal futures than about the city itself.
"Let him work it out a bit," he blurted out among other niceties. "He has to decide that he wants to be when he grows up." “I know that forming a government like this is complicated,” she added, like an emotional coach, “but I haven't had a holiday in a long time. And if I knew that I could be mayor I wouldn't even sleep”. So one or the other. Either his words empower Collboni in this final sprint... or they take away his desire to approach Sant Jaume again. “Collboni wants a change of seats – he told him, to finish –, to go from first deputy mayor to mayor, and from a Colau-Collboni government to a Collboni-Colau one. He worries me that he intends to do the same as in the last eight years and that the only thing that changes is that he earns a little more.
