Smell your votes, wrote Arturo San Agustín on May 1, 1995 in El Periódico. "Mayors and schoolchildren compete with hams and frills to appear in the photo of Santa Coloma". It is one of the press clippings from the 50th anniversary exhibition of the Feria de Abril de Catalunya. And in La Vanguardia Jaume V. Aroca explained the walk of the politician. "The mayor or deputy mayor is taken on foot or by air to the Fecac, where he drinks the first fines and gives an account of some ham cubes. With the honors done, accompanied by García Prieto, he begins the most exhausting part: visiting the booths to which he has been invited, sometimes two, sometimes ten. In each one, a fino, some taquitos, some words and, occasionally, some steps of Sevillanas”.
Sisterhoods are delighted these days. After years of covert disdain, politicians are returning to the celebration. The scandals of the president of Fecac, Francisco García Prieto, the internal wars between entities and after the pandemic robbed the party of its political prominence. But the recovery of normality and the electoral calendar are marking a turning point. "All the mayors are here again, now that we have regained calm - say the veterans of the Sarau - and people love it, whatever their ideology.
In this way, Ada Colau, the deputy mayor of BComú, in addition to officiating at the inauguration, also attended on Saturday, much more relaxed, with Yolanda Díaz. The Republican Ernest Margall also came on Friday, and on Sunday he will return with his number two, Elisenda Alemany, and much of his list. ERC, like the PSC, Ciutadans and Vox, has its own booth. The socialist Jaume Collboni was at the inauguration, on Monday he had lunch with representatives of the neighborhood groups and on Wednesday, with the Crisol collective. Xavier Trias, from Junts, also went there on Friday, and on Wednesday marked his own walk. Anna Grau, from Ciutadans, will be the mayor who steps on the fair more times this year. Eva Parera, from Valents, even set up a stall at the door for the opening to hand out postcards. And the popular Daniel Sirera also came on Friday and returned on Monday. Everyone has an open agenda for the last days of the party.
