“The PP is a state party that works for national integrity from the Government, but also from the opposition”. This is how the national leadership of the PP has justified the turn that has led this Saturday in Barcelona. The four PP votes were essential to invest Jaume Collboni (PSC) against Xavier Trias (Junts). The only condition to make the socialist candidate mayor was that he promised to leave Colau out of the government team. The rectification in extremis of the commons has tipped the balance. Collboni will govern Barcelona, and Trias remains at the gates.

Genoa sources report that last Thursday, the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, contacted the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán. In the telephone conversation, the PP offered its support to the PSC to take over the mayoralty of Barcelona. There was only one requirement: leave Ada Colau out. The communiqué of the popular does not say anything about this veto extending to the rest of the common team although, a priori, the purple ones renounce a coalition with Collboni.

Genoa exhibits a “sense of State” and justifies that, with the vote in favor of its four councilors, the PP manages to “withdraw from the governance of Barcelona both the Puigdemont party and the rupturist and sovereignist left” that “has done so much damage to the city in recent years”. that's the message. The PP, with four councilors and being the fifth most voted force, has claimed the head of Ada Colau and Xavier Trias. “Today we snatched from the independence movement the possibility of governing the city, and we also managed to withdraw from populism its largest institutional position at the municipal level,” they celebrate..

The popular ones also emphasize the decisive character that Daniel Sirera's councilors will have in the decisions adopted by the Barcelona City Council in the coming years, since Collboni will govern in a minority. Initially, and given the refusal of the PSC to accept its red line with respect to Colau, both Genoa and Sirera opted to vote for themselves in the investiture session, a decision that would have inevitably granted the mayoralty to Xavier Trias, for being the most voted list. But it was a decision to say the least delicate..

In the PP they recognized a certain spirit in Trias, although overshadowed by his “secessionist” environment. Internal suspicions began to grow as the possibility of facilitating the investiture of the Junts candidate was getting closer. The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, amended the criteria that Genoa had defended until now and warned on social networks hours before the plenary session that the PP could not be an accomplice to “Waterloo ruling Barcelona”. The step back from the commons ended up tipping the balance. In fact, in the statement from the PP leadership they refer to Trias at all times as “Carles Puigdemont's party”.