• Location: Carles Puigdemont's erroneous prediction with the Girona hospital

Just when the first year of her second term has just ended, the Mayor of Girona, Marta Madrenas , is facing one of her worst moments since she took over in March 2016 (with the permission of the fleeting Albert Ballesta , who held the mayor's office for a couple months of the same year) to the then first mayor of the city, Carles Puigdemont .

The first blow, directly to the chin, was the decision of the Health Department to locate the new Trueta hospital on land in the municipality of Salt to the detriment of those in Girona, and which has forced Madrenas to accept failure after years of battling and insisting, even confronting the health professionals themselves, so that the infrastructure would not leave the city it governs.

"There was an obvious social fatigue around this discussion (...). Now it was time not to delay the deadlines any longer and make a decision. Public officials have this responsibility, with the obligation to seek balance and preserve the general interest, and make political decisions listening to technical criteria, "Madrenas related in an article published in El Punt Avui a day after the verdict of the council, and in which the mayor made up the loss of what was to be one of the star achievements of her mandate.

The second setback suffered by the mayor, this time a low blow, was the unexpected resignation of the spokesperson for her government team, Carles Ribas , with whom Madrenas has shared militancy and municipal responsibilities since in 2011 both entered the Consistory hand in hand from Puigdemont.

The abandonment, which further weakens the government of Girona (with nine councilors out of 27) is due, according to some sources, to the mayor's involvement "in the politics carried out in Barcelona", as well as "the internal quarrels in the post- convergent space »derived from the carefree independence of Madrenas with which Ribas had not just married.

But, without a doubt, the hardest blows taken by the mayor are those coming from the continuous right hands launched from the opposition. The last one, a motion for Madrenas to abandon his other positions and dedicate all of his time to the city, and that Guanyem Girona will present in plenary next Monday.

"Given the economic and social crisis that will come, and with the learning from this first year in office, we need the city's institutional leadership to dedicate 100% to Girona and, therefore, to renounce the duplication of positions in the Parliament , in Congress or in the Deputation ", stated last Tuesday the Guanyem spokesman, Lluc Salellas , who also, and referring to the location of the new Trueta and the abandonment of Ribas, assured that" the Government of Madrenas does not it has a course and is incapable of managing the social, political and cultural emergencies that Girona has ».

However, and despite the noise that is generated around her, the mayor continues to cling not only to her chair in the City Hall, but also to that role of Puigdemont dolphin that led her, in 2018, to appear in the pools to become in candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat after the failed telematic investiture that the former president was chasing . For this reason, Madrenas has shown full involvement in the new political project that the former head of the Government is preparing, which led her to present, together with Elsa Artadi, last Saturday, the logo [ Junts ] of the party that will begin to lay the foundations this weekend.

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