Yolanda Díaz sows suspicions about socialism in her first meeting with Colau: "The right-wing concurs in different parties"

SPAIN

The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has sown suspicions this Saturday about the intentions of the PSC by warning that in Barcelona “the right-wing concur in different political formations”, and “represents them (the JxCat candidate for Mayor, Xavier) Trias, but not alone.”

He has indicated this at his first rally in support of the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, so that she is re-elected in the municipal elections of 28-M, held in Nou Barris. He will return to this town next Saturday in the central act of the campaign, which will be in another humble and peripheral neighborhood of the capital, Carmel, and in the closing act of the same.

In his speech, Díaz has launched this message several times, with expressions such as that Catalonia is going to “tell all of Spain that the right will not govern, whatever it is called”, or that the elections will be decided between “Colau and the right, whatever the right is called”.

Therefore, it has ended by asking all “progressives” to concentrate the vote on the mayoress and candidate for re-election.

In Barcelona en Comú, Colau's candidacy, they suspect that the PSC could be tempted to govern in coalition with Trias's candidacy instead of re-editing the municipal government with them.

Colau: Collboni has not denied agreeing with Trias

For her part, the mayoress of Barcelona and candidate for re-election, Ada Colau, denounced this Saturday that her rival from the PSC, Jaume Collboni, has refused, in the four electoral debates that have been held and she has asked him, to rule out who will agree with the Junts per Catalunya candidate, Xavier Trias.

The mayoress, precisely, used the resource of explaining the situation to Díaz to dedicate the only fragment of her speech that she gave in Spanish to promising that Barcelona en Comú will only agree with other progressive formations to reissue the current government, which unites her in coalition with the PSC.

“Something unexpected has happened, something that is still a surprise,” he pretended to tell the vice president, and reported that “there are more and more people worried” about the fact that “Trias is running to do right-wing politics and dismantle the measures of the municipal government” and, nevertheless, “the Socialist Party has opened the door to agree with Junts per Catalunya”.

“I say this from the perplexity of having governed with the Socialist Party,” he assured, testifying that in the four electoral debates he has directly asked Collboni, who left the Government months ago to focus on the campaign and differentiate himself, “and he has not ruled it out ”.

In addition, Colau assured that the socialist candidate exhibits “every time a speech more similar to that of Mr. Trias, saying that the transformations must be stopped” and “as if he had not been part of the Government. “We will not leave the city to the right,” he finished promising.