Friday, March 22 is the date marked on the calendar to vote on the municipal budget project in Barcelona, and if it was already difficult for the commons to support the PSC accounts, the electoral advance in Catalonia has complicated everything even more. Despite this, the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, is willing to try and redoubles the pressure to get the support of the municipal group of Ada Colau, which added to that of ERC would allow the socialists to have a majority in the municipal council.
"I would like to appeal to those who have not made the budget of the Generalitat possible and, in return, have caused the Government of Spain to withdraw its budgets: not to make the same mistake in the city of Barcelona" , assured Collboni in a round table at the PSC congress with other mayoresses, such as that of Sant Boi, Lluïsa Moret, and that of A Coruña, Inés Rey.
Collboni was in favor of negotiating a government agreement in Barcelona with ERC and the communes in the future, but he insisted that "first the policies are agreed and the budgets are voted on". If this is not achieved, the mayor was "determined to push forward the budgets by any means". Without the commons in the equation, the only possible way that the municipal government is headed is the question of confidence, since the votes of ERC are insufficient for the socialists to obtain the necessary majority to approve the 2024 accounts.
In the budget proposal presented, the PSC defends various investments and measures demanded at the time by the commons, such as air conditioning in schools, the installation of 2,000 new charging points for electric cars and the transfer of 17 plots of land to the Generalitat to build public housing.
BComú, for its part, disagreed with the PSC's call and insisted on its position with a message on the networks: "There are six days left for Jaume Collboni to decide if he wants to form a broad left-wing government in Barcelona that puts a stop to tourist decontrol and regulate seasonal rentals or if you prefer to turn your back on the public". All this alongside an image that includes a disturbing "ticking" that will mark a long week of declarations and counter-declarations until we reach the municipal meeting next Friday.
