In the absence of the official constitution of the Barcelona City Council on June 17 and knowing who will be the mayor, the truth is that the municipal council will be full of new faces. One of them and the best known will be the return eight years after the former mayor Xavier Trias, brand new winner of the electoral day on Sunday. Although he will not be the only former mayor that the Catalan capital will have since the socialist Jordi Valls, the former mayor of Manresa, will be under the orders of Jaume Collboni.
It also highlights a large number of councilors who had previously assumed functions in the Generalitat and will now hold a position on the other side of Plaza Sant Jaume. In this position are the former councilors of Junts Damià Calvet, Ramon Tremosa or Victòria Alsina. For the PSC, enters Lluís Rabell, former leader of the commons in the Parliament, while ERC will have Ester Capella, the former Minister of Justice, who had already been in the Great House.
Other politicians who return to the Consistory will be the popular leader Daniel Sirera and his party partner Ángeles Esteller, a former deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia and the Congress of Deputies. There will be more recognized faces of municipal politics, such as the former vice president of the Generalitat Joana Ortega, who had already been a councilor from 1996 to 2007.
On the other hand, there are new municipal representatives who come from areas as different as the number two of the Socialists Maria Eugènia Gay, a lawyer who until now had been a Government delegate in Catalonia, or Guille López, the signing of Ada Colau from the neighboring world to through the L'Eixample Respira platform. Others making their debut in this mandate will be the two members of the far-right Vox party: Gonzalo de Oro-Pulido, a businessman in the banking sector, and Liberto Senderos.
And those who repeat will become a minority, with 19 of the 41 councillors. Colau and Janet Sanz (BComú) stand out among those who are facing a new legislature and are already among the most veterans; Collboni, Albert Batlle and David Escudé (PSC); Ernest Maragall and Elisenda Alamany (ERC), and Jordi Martí and Francina Vila (Together). It should be noted that the municipal council will be more equal, with 21 men and 20 women.
