Colau proposes to the ERC and the PSC to share the Mayor's Office of Barcelona to prevent Trias from governing

In a desperate attempt to stay in power despite having lost the municipal elections, Ada Colau has proposed this Tuesday to share the Mayor of Barcelona between ERC, the PSC and the commons, alternating it throughout the term.

The still acting mayor has defended that the first to carry the command rod be Ernest Maragall. It would correspond to the Republican during the first year and then give it to her for a year and a half. The last to hold it would be the socialist Jaume Collboni during the remaining year and a half.

This government of three is arithmetically unquestionable, since together, the PSC, the commons and the ERC add up to 24 councillors, when the absolute majority necessary to unseat Xavier Trias despite having won the elections is 21 councillors.

However, Colau's imaginative offer has several weaknesses, apart from the assignment that sharing the Mayor's Office already implies.

The first is that the PSC refuses to share the Mayor's Office. The number three on the PSC list for Barcelona, Laia Bonet, has stressed that Collboni will present a candidacy to be mayor and has lamented that “the repeated response of the ERC leaders, both Pere Aragonès and Oriol Junqueras, has been to discard this proposal and bet on a pro-independence front led by Trias”.

And that is precisely the second obstacle for Colau. After losing 302,000 votes in the municipal elections, ERC wants to distance itself from the PSC and prioritize agreements between separatist forces. Indeed, Junqueras has repeatedly stated his intention to “recompose the independence consensus” to make Trias mayor and has also maintained that ERC has “no interest or willingness to offer the PSC the mayor's office.”

He refuses to accept the support of the PP

In these circumstances, the road is paved for the Junts candidate, since Colau has also warned today that he “rules out from minute zero” that Collboni is the mayor of the Catalan capital with the support of the PP and the external votes of the commons , who should support the investiture of the socialist and then be left out of the municipal government, as required by the popular candidate, Daniel Sirera, to lend his votes to the PSC.

If this veto is fulfilled, the help of the PP councilors to the socialist candidate would be sterile and would not prevent the investiture of the secessionist winner of the elections, since, united, the PSC and the popular ones would add up only 14 of the 21 necessary councilors.