There are bad data among the commons. His calls to build a progressive municipal government with the PSC and ERC are not finding much of an echo. So, unlike what they did after the two previous municipal elections, those from BComú are now adopting a much more moderate and much less belligerent discourse.
It was number two on the list and still deputy mayor, Jordi Martí, who yesterday was responsible for taking stock of Sunday's defeat and shedding some light on the political future of this city. His strategy is very clear: underline the significance and importance of giving Barcelona a progressive government and hold the PSC and ERC responsible for what happens in the end.
But in a tremendously friendly way, without raising his voice, without the ultimatums or serious warnings of other times, when the common people had a much better grip on the pan. Since, if these days become very severe, in the worst case they would break the negotiations before they started and they would be left helpless. And given these circumstances, the common people understand that, at least for now, the most convenient thing is to remove Ada Colau from the front line. The future of whoever has been the mayoress for the last eight years is very uncertain at the moment. No one is sure whether he will play any role in Barcelona's municipal political life these years.
"In the face of the advance of the right throughout Spain, it would be a shame if we squandered the opportunity for a great city to continue to be governed by the left," said Martí at the seat of the commons. "No, I don't think that the Republican Ernest Maragall automatically rules out a progressive pact, but rather he is asking Trias, as the winner of the elections, to move the table, to be the first to do it", he also said. "We haven't done anything yet, barely send each other cordial messages." "For us, this pact is a priority that we will treat with the utmost generosity." Not a trace of the ferocious manners distilled by the commons in the previous post-election moments.
And in the face of the insistent questions from journalists at the press conference about Colau's future, Martí showed off his waist a few times and also his hips, and simply said that they are still thinking about Sunday's defeat, which they have barely it's been a few hours since the results of the polls were known, which is still very early... Maybe some are still catching up on the electoral counting that will start this Friday.
Some of the communes still trust that the counting of the votes cast from abroad and the review of possible irregularities during the election day will allow them to scratch the few votes that separate them from the socialists, return to second place and find once again in the disposition to lead a government pact. But the truth is that not even Martí has much hope for this overtake.
The truth is that we are witnessing the scenario that worried Colau the most, the worst of the most plausible. Because he could lose the election. In fact they lost the previous ones. What is really wrong with everything is the fact that he cannot lead the happy pact of progress, what is happening. Throughout the campaign he always said that in this case he would sit down with the party to clarify his future. Madrid? An international body? Is she really willing to be the right hand of the socialist Jaume Collboni? The advance of the general elections, moreover, complicates everything.
