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Six ministers and Feijóo: the battle of the municipal ones is fought for Sant Jordi in Barcelona

2023-04-21T12:53:03.329Z


The campaign events to take the lead in the face of the May 28 contest are held this weekend, in a party that brings a crowd out into the street


April 23, the day of Sant Jordi, is reputed to be the unofficial festival of Catalonia.

The day, traditionally brighter and in better spirits than the formal Diada of September 11, throws a torrent of people onto the streets.

An affable setting with roses and books, the ideal showcase for those seeking public projection.

The painting, one month before the municipal elections, is announced this year as a quadrangle where it will be necessary to stick out elbows to be in the photo.

The Government moves six ministers to Barcelona, ​​the PSOE puts three and the other half are in charge of Unidas Podemos, and the Popular Party takes advantage of the date to mount a visit from Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The Generalitat states that it has not received any communication about the arrival of political authorities and the

president

Pere Aragonès does not plan to hold any official meeting with any of the visitors.

This is the informal kick-off of the Barcelona electoral campaign.

The battle to win the mayoralty of Barcelona is presented as a duel with an uncertain outcome until May 28.

PSC, Junts, and the commons of Ada Colau say they have internal polls that predict a very even result between the three.

The predictions indicate that the one who won the last elections, the Esquerra candidate, Ernest Maragall, 80, will fall off the podium, despite which, the three-way scuffle fuels the parties' commitment to Barcelona, ​​since in Madrid no poll questions the advantage of the PP.

In the troubled river of the electoral contest, all the hooks seem good.

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, was the first to land this Thursday in Catalonia.

He went to the monastery of Montserrat, where he met Abbot Manel Gasch and took a photo with the Virgen de la Moreneta.

The minister's team valued the excursion to the sanctuary as an "institutional visit to a symbol of Catalonia".

Bolaños has become one of the government's loudspeakers when it comes to proclaiming that "normality" has returned to Catalonia after a decade of

procés

.

This Friday he will coincide with Pere Aragonès at the lighting of the April Fair, in the Parc del Fòrum.

There will be no meeting between the two, both parties assure.

"The Government of Spain is not committed to returning to the past or to formulas that divided and confronted the Catalans," said the minister this Thursday, in relation to the Clarity Agreement defended by the Government.

Bolaños, one of Pedro Sánchez's closest collaborators, has the mission of helping to size the image of Jaume Collboni, PSC candidate for the municipal elections.

Despite having been part of the Colau Government for more than three years, Collboni tries to distance himself from the mayor's legacy.

The head of the PSC list in Barcelona tries to squeeze an image of transversality, with a view to being able to play the wild card of a pact with Xavier Trias,

without closing the doors to a reissue of the agreement with Colau.

Trias heads the Junts per Catalunya list, but in his campaign he avoids references to the party chaired by Laura Borràs, and distances himself from the most radical pro-independence theses supported by part of the leadership of the formation.

In the puzzle that can be drawn after the elections, the only alliance that seems unfeasible is the one that puts Ada Colau and Xavier Trias in the same government.

The rest everything is possible.

In Barcelona, ​​on Saturday afternoon, a miniature meeting of the council of ministers is planned.

Up to six of them will coincide in a social act organized by

La Vanguardia

.

Along with Bolaños will be the Socialists Miquel Iceta (Culture) and José Manuel Albares (Foreign Affairs).

United We Can also mobilize a large representation, led by Yolanda Díaz.

The Vice President of the Government is in good harmony with the Mayor Ada Colau.

Barcelona City Council is a pillar of power for the spectrum of the commons, and this weekend the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, and the head of Universities, Joan Subirats, will also wear their brand in the city.

The Popular Party also seeks its share of leadership in Sant Jordi.

Its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, arrives in Barcelona this Friday.

He has a public-private agenda where he combines a visit to the Conde de Godó Tennis Trophy, a meeting point for Barcelona's high society these days, and an act in Castelldefels, to endorse Manu Reyes' candidacy.

José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid, is also expected at that appointment.

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