Just 24 hours after all the town halls in Spain are constituted, the PSOE has made a desperate appeal to try to gain control of Barcelona. Pedro Sánchez's party was the second political force in the Catalan capital after the May 28 elections and could only unseat the candidate on the most voted list, Xavier Trias, from Junts, with the support of the commons and the PP, which crossed vetoes have been drawn with each other.

“The question we ask Yolanda Díaz, who we understand is the leader of this entire movement, Sumar, where [Ada] Colau joins, and also Mr. [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo is if they prefer that the mayor of Barcelona be [ Carles] Puigdemont or Jaume Collboni. That is the challenge,” warned Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, secretary of Municipal Policy for the Socialists, raising pressure on the vice president of his coalition government to mediate before the acting mayor.

In Ferraz, they are trying to put both the PP and its still partners in La Moncloa in the position of deciding among themselves, making possible the investiture as councilor of “an independentista or a constitutionalist”, implying that the president of the Generalitat who called the illegal referendum of 2017 in Catalonia would really be the one who would govern in the city instead of Trias.

The winner of the last municipal elections and the ERC candidate, Ernest Maragall, have finalized an agreement to govern together in Barcelona, but which still lacks five councilors for an absolute majority. This alliance will prosper as long as Collboni's maneuver to obtain the support of the PP and the party of the still acting mayoress for her inauguration does not go ahead.

For its part, the PP has taken the initiative this Friday to try to prevent Trias from occupying the Mayor's Office again. Daniel Sirera has offered the socialist aspirant the support of the popular councilors if he manages to convince the common people to support him in exchange for nothing. That is to say, that they lend their votes to later go over to the opposition, informs Víctor Mondelo.