DVD 1188 11/24/23 Barcelona.
Municipal plenary session of the Barcelona City Council. In the image, the councilor of Barcelona in Comu, Ada Colau, with a Palestinian scarf.
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Respond to Jaume Collboni's order with another order.
This is what the Ada Colau members did this Monday after the mayor of Barcelona announced last week that he will try to process the Barcelona City Council's budgets for 2024 this Tuesday. The spokesperson for the Barcelona municipal group in common at the City Hall, Janet Sanz has announced that her party will allow the processing of the accounts in the Economy Commission this Tuesday first thing in the morning.
But she will give a warning in the form of an ultimatum: “If in 30 days there is no left-wing government pact, we will vote no to the budgets” when they reach the plenary session.
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Jaume Collboni launches an order to his potential partners and will take the Barcelona budget to a vote
“One issue goes with the other, you cannot ask for a blank check,” he stressed and warned about the possibility that the budget would end up being approved as a matter of trust: “Through the back door,” Sanz questioned.
The commons themselves resorted to this formula in 2017 and 2018 to approve the accounts: it consists of the mayor presenting the accounts to the Plenary, and if an alternative government has not been formed in a month, they are automatically approved.
The PSC, Jaume Collboni's party, only has 10 councilors out of a total of 41. To approve the accounts it needs more support, either from Junts (11) or from the commons (9) with ERC, which has five councilors.
Sanz has been critical of the current mayor, who was a member of the commons in Colau's two terms as mayor.
She recalled that it was he who stated that there would be a budget and government agreement “before spring.”
“Last week he came in a hurry, it seems like a joke.
What Barcelona needs is not a mayor who is dizzy, it is a strong Government that is clear about the possibilities of Governing, in these months we do not see new projects, reports, plans," he considered, recalling that Collboni himself has been in favor of a " progressive agreement” between socialists, commons and ERC.
Given the reluctance of part of the ERC militancy to govern in a tripartite with Colau, Sanz has assured that the commoners have no problem in governing with the Republicans.
And he has also assured that the presence of Ada Colau in a future government (despite having been mayor, which would be unprecedented), is not a problem for Collboni: "The mayor has never said that it is an impediment."
If an agreement is reached, the militancy should endorse it.
After the poor results of both Sumar and the PSC in the Galician elections this Sunday, Sanz has defended that "it is more necessary than ever for there to be left-wing governments, the PSC knows that strong and stable governments are needed."
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