One of the most important consequences of the municipal elections held yesterday in Barcelona is that the results have activated the countdown so that on June 17 the woman who has been mayor of the city for the last eight years will hand over the command rod, since be it the winner of the elections, Xavier Trias, or the first classified of the left-wing bloc, the socialist Jaume Collboni.
What future awaits Ada Colau? The answer is only known at this time by the mayoress herself, who has various options before her. The one that seems most probable, practically certain, is that she does not exhaust the four years of her mandate as a councilor, either in a coalition government with the Socialists with the roles reversed with respect to the previous four years, or in the municipal opposition.
The advancement of the general elections to July 23 that Pedro Sánchez has just announced could speed up the deadlines for Colau's decision-making, since one of the options with the most numbers to prosper is that he leave the City Council to fully devote himself to the project of Yolanda Díaz as one of Sumar's main assets. In this case, Colau's hours in the Barcelona City Council are numbered.
The other possibility is one that has been speculated about for a long time: that the mayoress, when she leaves office, may end up in an international public or private institution, taking advantage of the excellent contacts made in her time at the head of the Consistory and the prestige acquired beyond our borders.
One of the things that Colau must leave tied before his goodbye to municipal politics is the immediate future of his group. BComú depends like the air it breathes on the figure of its unique and indisputable leader and its departure will leave the commons orphans of that leadership. A pact to continue governing, this time with the socialist Jaume Collboni as mayor, would guarantee them to maintain a significant level of power and would mitigate the consequences of losing numerous positions and influence over political decisions, not only at the municipal level, but even in Catalan and Spanish.
