The PSC finds itself facing the demoscopic wind, also in Barcelona, but they admit that the matter is highly disputed and that the victory that, if the results of the latest polls that give victory to Jaume Collboni are confirmed on Sunday, "will go from 1,000 votes". That is why the message of the "decisive week" of the campaign focuses on appealing to the useful vote, to a "broad majority" in favor of the mayor of Barcelona so that "he does not have to depend on anyone."
This has been claimed by Collboni and the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, in a political act in the Raval in Barcelona with older people. "I want a large majority. I ask for a large majority so that I don't have to depend on anyone", to have "a strong government and a strong mayor" that allows "recovering the best Barcelona", the candidate has demanded.
To do this, Collboni has called on Barcelona voters to exercise a "massive vote", a "vote for Barcelona" in his favor because "nothing has been done yet". Aware therefore of the narrow margin in which the mayoralty of the city is at stake, he appealed, as Illa has done, "to those who have never supported us" at the polls, to do so for the first time this 28-M.
The first secretary of the PSC elaborated on that minimal advantage that Collboni has in the polls to mark the road map that the party must follow towards victory: "It is true, most of the polls place us ahead. We know that the PSC is the rival to beat, but that is not going to change our approach, our way of understanding politics, with serenity and with proposals". In this sense, the PSC leader has praised Collboni's "respectful" political sense and "public service" in the face of whom he conceives of politics as "the crude exercise of power."
Illa claimed the "right to be optimistic in Catalonia and Barcelona", but asked "everyone" to vote in favor of the "useful policy" that in his opinion his party practices. "If they give us the confidence, the PSC complies, because the PSC has never failed Barcelona or Catalonia," proclaimed Illa, who appealed to the socialist voter; to "those who for some reason, whatever it may be, have not supported us lately but see that Catalonia cannot continue down the path of division, confrontation and complaints", and "those who have never voted for us".
Collboni has also taken the opportunity to throw some winks at the respectable person who welcomed him at today's event, such as the promise to invest 20 million in this mandate to "improve housing for people over 65 in Barcelona", an amount that he would include in the plan of neighborhood rehabilitation with which 200 elevators are expected to be installed in buildings in the most vulnerable neighborhoods of the city, or the commitment to increase telecare to 85% of those over 80 years of age. "No one has done as much for the elderly in the city as the Socialists", claimed the candidate, while Illa recalled the update of pensions carried out by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
