He had conversations with Junts and “many proposals were put on the table that did not come to fruition”
BARCELONA, 18 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni, has defended that the decision of the votes of BComú and the PP that supported and allowed his investiture as mayor of the city this Saturday “has been taken in Barcelona”.
“We have done what I said we would do: take my candidacy to the end,” he said in an interview in the newspaper ‘El Periódico’ collected this Sunday by Europa Press.
Asked if he offered to split the mayor’s office to the leader of Trias for Barcelona and winner of the municipal elections, Xavier Trias, Collboni replied that “many proposals are made in negotiations.”
“I had conversations with Junts, I do not hide, and many proposals were put on the table that did not come to fruition, as is evident. It does not contribute much to think about it more,” he added.
When asked about the pact that the BComú councilor and former mayor, Ada Colau, said she had been offered together with the PP, she replied that now “the important thing is to look to the future, to start a new phase.”
And asked if he wants to have a partner, he has assured that he made an offer last Thursday to the communes to form a coalition government –“that is the idea that I have in my head”, he said–, and that they were the of Ada Colau who decided to be in opposition and invest him.
“But I have a project that everyone knows, my contract with the voters, an idea and a proposal that is a progressive coalition,” he said, adding that it will be seen in the coming months how to articulate the necessary majorities to make the government governable. consistory.
“I am very confident in our ability to agree. The PSC will act as a PSC and close broad agreements, except with the extreme right, to move forward with the key issues of the city in the coming months,” he stressed.
He has detailed that he will not modify either the management structure or the directive structure of the previous mandate in the City Council because he is committed to institutional continuity: “Firstly because we are not sectarian and secondly because there are excellent professionals in charge of many areas of the City Council.”
For Collboni, the public “understands perfectly that democracy is a pact and that the pacts that are valid in Girona or in the Lleida and Tarragona councils are valid in Barcelona”.
And he has compared it with the Catalan elections of February 2021, in which the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, won in votes, but was not sworn in as president: “And it did not occur to the PSC to question the legitimacy of the figure of President Pere Aragonese”.
He has considered that the PSC has been coherent during a campaign that he has defined as polarized and in which “it was very difficult not to say things that could not be fulfilled later.”
“I did not put red lines. I set the conditions for the new government to start talking: economic growth, social justice and institutional loyalty,” he claimed.
When asked if he would revoke the reform of the Ronda de Sant Antoni in the first 100 days as mayor, as he said in the campaign, he replied that his objective is to fulfill his electoral program although “we must take into account the arithmetic that exists in the City hall”.
Regarding the inauguration ceremony on Saturday, he has confessed that he entered the Saló de Cent with two speeches, one for investiture and the other as head of the opposition, and that he was aware that he would be mayor at the time he received more than 21 votes.
He added that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, called him to congratulate him and to tell him that “this was very important for the country and for the socialist party”.
