Historic agreement against the independence movement in Barcelona: Collboni, mayor with the votes of the PP
Jaume Collboni has become the new mayor of Barcelona thanks to the votes of the commons and the PP, which, out of a sense of State and culminating in a historic agreement against the independence movement, has decided to support the socialist candidate to prevent the separatist Xavier Trias from will govern the Catalan capital together with ERC.
Collboni has gathered 23 votes, two more than necessary to reach an absolute majority, and has thus been able to unseat the winner of the elections on May 28. Trias has remained in the 16 supports by collecting only those of ERC, with which he had reached a governance agreement that the bases of the two parties came to validate on the morning of this Saturday.
But less than an hour before the town council's plenary session began, Ada Colau's party announced that it would lend its votes to the socialist candidate and go over to the opposition, thus fulfilling the condition that the leader of the PP in Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, had set Friday to contribute to Collboni's inauguration.
“I have kept my word. I said that I would not make a separatist mayor nor would I allow the commons to be in the Government of Barcelona”, the popular said minutes after Collboni was anointed, to immediately acknowledge that “it has not been easy to support a socialist mayor, our main adversary, 36 days before the general elections”.
“The most comfortable thing would have been to vote for myself, but a common pro-independence front would have been formed in Barcelona against the future government of the PP,” added Sirera, who has demanded from the new socialist mayor “responsibility for forming a government in which the common ones are there and show that Colau is history and turn it into a bad dream”.
The claim of the popular is not trivial, given that last Thursday Collboni officially presented his candidacy, assuring that, after being invested, he would form an Executive with the commons.
In fact, Colau has ratified that they will go to the opposition, but that their will is to reach agreements with the PSC given the impossibility of the socialists governing the city with only ten councilors. The leader of the commons has assured that they have voted for Collboni as “the lesser evil”, when her wish was to have formed a left-wing tripartite with the PSC and ERC.
Trias returns to his retirement
This was the anger of Xavier Trias
Tremendously tense has been the intervention of Trias in the plenary session. Before announcing that he will renounce his act as councilor to return to the political retirement from which he came out to try to become mayor again, Carles Puigdemont's candidate has snapped at Colau and Collboni: “They are ashamed to look me in the face”, while booing them against the new mayor thundered in the Saló de Cent in Barcelona, the gala room where the ceremony was held. “They do nonsense, they create an atmosphere of confrontation. You are doing the country a disservice.. At 76 years old, I was already saying it: 'If I don't become mayor, they'll be damned', the winner of the elections urged on, to later melt into a hug with Ernest Maragall, who has branded the agreement that has led to the defeat of secessionism in Barcelona.
The two defeated secessionist councilors received in person the consolation of the leaders of their political formations. It was proven that, indeed, Trias was the Junts candidate, no matter how much he hid it during the campaign, when its president, the condemned Laura Borràs, and its general secretary, the pardoned Jordi Turull, came to comfort him.
And it was proven how much it hurt ERC to see its independence front fail when Oriol Junqueras did the same with Maragall and later lamented saying: “We see a new pact of shame, a pact to prevent independence from ruling the capital of our country. A new State operation before which we cannot remain indifferent».
Pere Aragonès issued a similar complaint after receiving the municipal delegation at the Palau de la Generalitat, as required by protocol. The head of the Catalan Executive maintained that on the election of Collboni “an agreement is projected at the State level between the two great parties” and vindicated the will to decide of the Catalan nation.
Deceased Collboni attended the ceremony after having to cross the Plaza Sant Jaume under escort in a hostile climate, as hundreds of secessionists were waiting to recriminate him for the cry of “botifler” that would have brought Trias down from the Mayor's Office.
“I want to be the mayor of all”, the socialist had proclaimed a few minutes before, in a message delivered first in Catalan and then in Spanish, which he completed by promising “not to be dogmatic”, defending that he is a “legitimate” mayor and demanding “respect » for the councilors who, giving him their support, believed that voting for him «was the best thing for the city of Barcelona today».
Eight years after his first attempt and, despite not having been able to win the elections in any of the contests in which he participated, Collboni tied up the Mayor's Office of Barcelona using the fear that the institution would be devoured by nationalism.