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The plenary
session of the Barcelona City Council
asks the
Government
of Pedro Sánchez to urgently process the pardon of rapper Pablo Hasel, sentenced to nine months in prison for
exalting terrorism
and two fines for insults and slander against the
Crown
and the institutions of the
State
.
The
Barcelona en Comú
proposal
, which among other points also demanded the repeal of the
gag law
and urged the
Catalan Parliament
to review the autonomous police model, has received favorable votes from Esquerra Republicana and Junts per Catalunya and has caused a division with its partner in the municipal Executive, the PSC, who has voted against.
The Socialists, for their part, have presented another proposal that asked to condemn and reject "without nuances" the altercations in the protests for the imprisonment of the musician, support the commercial and business fabric of the city, defend
freedom of expression
and recognize the work of public services.
The text has also been approved with the votes of Ciudadanos, PP and
Barcelona pel Canvi
[Manuel Valls's party], the abstention of the
commons
and Junts and the opposite vote of ERC, which has demanded "to do politics in capital letters", more beyond the sentences, to analyze the motives for the mobilizations.
In the plenary session, which has rejected three proposals related to the
riots
of recent days presented by Cs, PP and BCN Canvi, the divergence between municipal groups and within the local government regarding this matter has been evidenced, despite the unanimous condemnation of
violence
and
looting
in some businesses.
The socialist
Jaume Collboni
, first deputy mayor, and
Jordi Martí
, councilor for the Presidency, have starred in a one-on-one discussion on this issue.
"The left is to go to the causes of the problems, while the right appeals more to the stomach than to reason", has defended the representative of BComú, to which the leader of the PSC has replied: "We Socialists spent 40 years listening to CiU say what it was to be good or bad Catalans; please, now do not tell us what it is to be a good or bad progressive ".
The one who used the most energetic tone during the session was Valls.
"Change the name of Hasel to that of a
radical
Islamist
or a
neo-Nazi
. Is it freedom of expression? No, it is a
hate crime,
" the former French prime minister has exemplified in one of his speeches.
Rejection of the roadmap
Before the debate on freedom of expression and altercations, Mayor Ada Colau has seen how all opposition political groups rejected her
Municipal Action Program
(PAM), the document that plans the main projects of the local government.
It was precisely in the previous term when the bipartisan of the
commons
and the PSC became the first Executive to which the plenary session of the City Council did not approve the
PAM
since these programs began to be developed at the end of the 90s. This tool is not a practical setback, but it shows problems in reaching alliances with the rest of the groups, something that was common in the previous mandate.
Thus, despite the rejection, Martí has said that they will use the document as a roadmap until 2023 and has made Esquerra ugly that he has not supported it, contrary to what happened with the last two budgets of the
Consistory
: "It seems that they are more pending of the negotiation to form a
Government of the Generalitat
with Junts, to whom they do not want to bother ".
Republican councilor
Jordi Coronas
has refused to endorse "an inconclusive PAM and little transgressor with the
establishment
that prioritized that there should be no pro-independence mayor in Barcelona [for
Ernest Maragall
, winner of the 2019 elections]".
At the beginning of the plenary session of
the Municipal Council
, the annual debate on the state of the city was held, in which opposition groups have reproached the Colau Cabinet for its management during the
coronavirus
pandemic
.
"The extreme left that has governed for six years has left Barcelona in the bones", has sentenced the president of Citizens in the Consistory,
Luz Guilarte
.
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