Ada Colau proposes an unprecedented formula in Barcelona to try to prevent Xavier Trias from being mayor again. The acting mayor of the Catalan capital has proposed to the PSC and ERC to alternate the mayoralty between the three left-wing political parties with representation in the consistory.
In statements to RTVE, to avoid the Republican veto of a left-wing pact, the representative of Barcelona en Comú has offered Ernest Maragall to govern the first year and then divide the remaining three years between her and Collboni. The formula would be a year and a half for Colau and the last year and a half for the Socialists, "always putting the political program at the center," she specified.
After two legislatures as mayor, Colau wants to continue betting on a left-wing government, "the broadest and most solid majority" after 28-M, she says. Despite the fact that there is a "willingness to speak" on the part of ERC and PSC, she confesses that there is "mutual mistrust".
Trias was the candidate with the most votes in the last municipal elections, with 17,000 more votes than his most direct rivals: Collboni and Colau. The representative of Junts removed 11 councilors, for the 10 of the socialists and the 9 of En Comú Podem. Maragall went from being the most voted in the previous elections to being relegated to fourth place (5).
The idea of the Republicans was not to put sticks in the wheels and invest Trias. For this reason, Colau tries to rush until the last moment to find "imaginative formulas" -as the mayoress herself has said- to achieve the long-awaited pact of the left.
