The former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has linked her departure from the plenary with the “turn to the right” and the refusal of the current mayor, Jaume Collboni, to include the Comuns in the municipal government. “Right now I can be more useful outside than inside,” she said.
In an interview on TV3, Colau confirmed that she will leave Barcelona City Council at the plenary session next October. The leader of the Comuns attributed her departure to the “surprise and disappointment” caused in her party when Collboni did not include them in his municipal government after having voted, together with the PP, for her investiture.
“Collboni did not want to make a pact on the left,” lamented Colau, who also attacked the “privatisation” and “shift to the right” that, in her opinion, the current municipal government is carrying out. “The majority of progressive voters in Barcelona expected a left-wing government, but the mayor did not want to explore it,” she added.
From 2015 to 2023, the Comuns have gone from 177,000 to 132,000 votes in the city. After facilitating Collboni’s investiture, Barcelona en Comú went into opposition with the aspiration of entering the municipal government at some point, but the party has now found that the PSC prefers to agree a coalition with ERC and leave them out.
Colau has denied “being an obstacle” to a left-wing pact and has defended that the Comuns remain in the opposition in Barcelona to be “the alternative” to the current mayor in the 2027 elections, without ruling out being the candidate.
Source: www.eldiario.es
