Ricard Font, general secretary of the vice-presidency of the Generalitat and the Department of Territory until the breakup of the ERC and Junts government, will be the new general manager of the public company Barcelona Municipal Infrastructures (Bimsa). The City Council has taken advantage of Jordi Puigneró's resignation as number 2 to hire one of the people with the greatest knowledge of public works in the field of infrastructure in Catalonia due to his experience in the Generalitat.
Although he is a lawyer by profession, for the last eleven years he has been at the forefront of decision-making at the Conselleria de Territori. Initially as General Director of Transport and Mobility and since 2013 as Secretary of Infrastructure and Mobility. From 2018 to 2021 he presided over Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGC), a period in which he laid the foundations for the public company's strategy for the coming years. When Puigneró assumed the vice presidency, Font returned to the Tarradellas Avenue department as general secretary. For the last year and a half, he has served as de facto Minister of Territory while the vice president focused on the area of digital policies.
The signing has been promoted by the deputy mayor for Ecology, Urban Planning and Mobility, Janet Sanz, who holds the presidency of the public company in charge of executing the urban actions commissioned by the City Council. She will now be the new boss of Font, who in recent years has been her main interlocutor in the Territori department. Both have always exhibited a very fluid relationship that has led them to seal various agreements between the Generalitat and the City Council, as well as to materialize joint claims against the Ministry of Transport or the railway infrastructure administrator (Adif).
Sanz and his team have put the curriculum and the work done by Font before their political militancy, which today remains within Junts per Catalunya. It is a movement similar to the one carried out in 2016, when they signed the former convergent minister Pere Macías to direct the work of joining the tramway along Diagonal.
Font will replace Ángel Sánchez, the engineer who has been in charge of Bimsa for the last few years and who already had the possibility of retiring for a long time but did not want to do so until the Glòries tunnel was operating at full capacity. Now that the underground road that crosses the square is already part of the daily life of the city, Sánchez withdraws.
The appointment of the new director general must previously go through the plenary session of this same month of October, a procedure that will not suppose major problems since it has the approval of both the commons and the socialists.
