The Moragues room of the Born Center for Culture and Memory will be the setting on April 24 for one of the first pre-election debates of the candidates for mayor of Barcelona on May 28. The act, organized by the employers' association of small and medium-sized companies, Pimec, will bring together the heads of the list of the formations to which all the surveys attribute representation in the City Council that will come out of these elections.
Pimec has invited Ada Colau (BComú), Jaume Collboni (PSC), Ernest Maragall (ERC), Xavier Trias (Junts) and Daniel Sirera (PP) to this business-themed debate. All of them have accepted the invitation and will go to the meeting in El Born the day after the Sant Jordi festival at 9.30 am.
The debate will focus solely on strategic issues in Barcelona and its metropolitan area that affect the day-to-day economic activity, in general, and small and medium-sized companies, in particular. That is why the act, entitled The future Barcelona: economic and social, will be structured into three large blocks.
The first will refer to the productive economy and especially to two vital sectors for the city such as commerce and tourism.
The second block will analyze, based on the proposals of the formations that will compete for the mayoralty, how Barcelona will be or should be on the horizon of 2030, placing special emphasis on the ideas of the candidates to promote innovation and the recruitment and retention of talent.
The third block will be dedicated to a question that is already clearly emerging as one of the major themes of these elections, the debate on the mobility of the future, how to promote economic activity while complying with sustainability criteria. In this section, Pimec will ask the mayoral candidates to get wet about the future of large infrastructures, especially about the port of Barcelona and about El Prat airport and its expansion.
