In an election in which up to three candidates have options to be in first position, the mayors of Junts and PSC in Barcelona have agreed this Wednesday to rule out an attempt to obtain the mayoralty if they do not finish in first position. “If you don’t win, you lose, and if you lose, you go to the opposition,” said Socialist candidate Jaume Collboni. Xavier Trias, from Junts, has stated something similar in an interview in Digital was born: “If I come in second, I won’t be mayor.”
Jaume Collboni: “I am not going to make Xavier Trias mayor or Ada Colau mayor”
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The demonstrations of both candidates are veiled darts for the current mayor, Ada Colau, who was able to run for a second term thanks to the abstention of Manuel Valls after having been second in the last 2019 elections, behind Ernest Maragall (ERC).
The game of pacts after May 28 is expected to be crucial to elect the mayor or mayoress in Barcelona, with three candidates (Colau, Trias and Collboni) practically tied in the polls and with crossed vetoes between them.
Colau and Trias have vetoed each other, Trias and Collboni flirt with a possible deal and the mayoress of Barcelona is committed to looking towards progressive forces, including the PSC. Collboni, however, He has assured that he will not support a third term for Colau.
In a press conference at the ACN agency, Collboni assured this Wednesday that he will not enter any coalition government in which he is not mayor. Yes, he has lowered, however, his rejection of a possible investiture by Colau. “Agreements will be needed? Surely,” he said. “They will be decided by the voters and the arithmetic that can be done”
