The agreement signed between Ada Colau and the PSC to govern Barcelona granted the Socialists the Security portfolio. However, the mayor of the Catalan capital has limited by decree the decision-making capacity of the municipal group led by Jaume Collboni in this matter, crucial given the "security crisis" that the city is experiencing and the Barcelona Executive himself acknowledges.

As mayor, Colau holds the vote of quality in the Plenary, that is to say, she has the power to decide the votes that end in a tie. Now, thanks to the approval of a signed decree of his handwriting, his party will also enjoy that prerogative in the Committee on Presidency and Security, although it is chaired by Albert Batlle, deputy mayor of Security and number three of the socialists in the Consistory.

The Mayor's decree, to which this newspaper has had access, was signed by Colau on September 19 and states that “under the principle of unity of Government, it is not admissible that the casting vote be attributed to the chairmanship of the commissions », So« the quality vote must be maintained within the municipal group in which the mayor is integrated ».

Therefore, it provides the decree that “deconcentrates the councilors of the municipal group in which the mayor is integrated who are spokespersons in the commissions the power to settle with their vote the ties that occur in the voting of the matters of the order of the day of the respective commissions ».

This direct order from the mayor prevents the PSC from having the last word in the Commission of Presidency and Security, the one with the most political weight in the City Council of Barcelona and in which agreements related to security are approved, which are then submitted to the Plenary to Your final approval. Draft resolutions are also approved in this commission. Without going any further, on September 18 the Presidency and Security Commission approved an ERC proposal - supported by the commons and JxCat - by which the Barcelona City Council undertakes to «work with the rest of the institutions and civil society of the country to find solutions to achieve the freedom of political prisoners and call for citizen mobilization in favor of rights and freedoms ». The text also argued that "the people prosecuted are for political reasons," called for "release of prisoners and return of exiles" and demanded the "holding of a referendum."

The City Council already approved in 2015 an identical decree, but at that time Colau ruled alone and, therefore, did not deprive his current socialist partners of the quality vote in the commissions they presided, but those of the opposition. Then the Presidency and Security Commission was chaired by the CiU councilor Francina Vila.

The new approval of the decree supposes for the leader of Cs in the City council of Barcelona, ​​Luz Guilarte, «one more sample of the distrust and the tensions that exist within the own Government». "It is a replica of what we already lived in the past mandate and that ended with a confrontation between the two and the expulsion of the PS C from the municipal executive," adds the constitutional councilor, who also recriminates the PSC "having made all kinds of concessions to the Government of Colau and the separatists, "whom he calls" his true partners. "

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