The candidacy of Xavier Trias has marked this Sunday from El Putxet i el Farró, in a crowded square, the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi as the "zero kilometer" of the victory in the city race, in the elections on Sunday that comes. "We have to be the force with the most votes here, by far, because it is the guarantee that we will win in Barcelona", highlighted the number three on the list and head of the campaign, councilor Jordi Martí, who has warned once again that voting to the PSC candidate, Jaume Collboni, is to vote for the mayoress, Ada Colau. "We need the maximum advantage over the competitors because if they don't they will do it again [agree common and PSC]", Martí has warned.
Trias, for his part, has called for mobilization and has changed the description he has dedicated to Collboni in this electoral campaign. If before he called him a "tourist" for having left his responsibilities in the municipal government a few months ago, but today he has called him an "altar boy", for always helping Colau and Pedro Sánchez. “Oh, how can we not mobilize to vote... you vote one day but the punishment lasts four years. That has already happened ”, Trias warned trying to unite the useful and contrary vote to the mayoress of the Catalan capital.
As was to be expected, the representatives of the district who spoke, Montse Cantín Mas and Pol Lliró, charged against the Via Augusta bike lane, and deputy Titon Laïlla, number nine on the list and neighbor of the neighborhood, been especially belligerent with Colau and Collboni.
In his speech, Laïlla, from the Democrats of Catalonia, remarked that Trias's candidacy is the "only one that can guarantee and ensure change". "We cannot ignore the responsibility, everyone to vote", has pointed out the also deputy, who has reproached the mayoress for having barely visited the district in these four years in office.
For her part, number six, Joana Ortega, has accused the municipal government of being a "generator of difficulties" and has made Colau ugly that the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district is "at the tail of the City Council's investments". “We have fewer services and fewer investments”, she has complained.
Likewise, Trias has also blamed Colau for not leaving Barcelona and not exercising the capital status of Catalonia from the city council. "How many times has he left Barcelona?" Asked the former post-convergent mayor. "As a capital we have to help all towns and cities, being a capital is being the big brother of a family," Trias summarized.
The post-convergent space aspires to recover the winning role in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, which in the past gave majority support to the convergent space and was the main fiefdom of Jordi Pujol's party in Barcelona, where it obtained better numbers -percentage- , above districts such as Les Corts or the Eixample. The sensations are not bad, since yesterday the candidacy packed the act, perhaps the one that has had the most influx of those that it has done for all the districts.
In fact, every time that Trias has been a candidate, he has won in that position. The last two times he was the outstanding winner with more than 31,000 votes in 2011 (29.5%); and more than 29,900 in 2015 (27.4%), in full process.
However, four years ago, two years after the 1-O referendum, the Joaquim Forn-Elsa Artadi electoral ticket barely touched 14,000 ballots, leaving it almost in a position of a tie with Esquerra and far from the winner, the coalition of Manuel Valls and Ciudadanos, which garnered more than 19,000 votes.
Trias's candidacy has made a show of transversality throughout these weeks, he himself exhibits both the support of Jordi Pujol and that of Carles Puigdemont, who this Wednesday wrote a message of support for the Junts candidate in Barcelona. The formation wants to combine the support of more moderate sectors and that of the independence movement embodied by the former president, who has called to vote for Trias, who has carried out a more moderate campaign and without constant references to the independence movement.
