Joan Subirats, the professor who jumped from exquisite maragallismo to direct Colau's populism

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Acting since 2014 as a shadow ideologue and

of Ada Colau, an activist whom he led even the mayor of Barcelona by the hand,

personifies like few others that left-wing Catalan caviar, little sister of the

who

the death throes of Francoism in Bocacció, the Flash-Flash and the Giardinetto, which with the passage of time was accommodated its living room Marxism to the enlightened maragallism of the PSC and, after the failed tripartite project, to institutional sovereignty.

Declared defender of the right of self-determination of Catalonia and of the celebration of a referendum, this retired professor of Political Sciences by the University of Barcelona defended last August, in an interview in Plural Catalonia, the need for the Government of the PSOE " have a clearer recognition of peripheral Spain and move towards a more federal structure. It is inevitable, whether or not the problem of recognition of Catalonia will be solved is another matter ".

Founder of his Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP), columnist for

and collaborator of the SER, Subirats (Barcelona, ​​1971) began his political activism in the PSUC and Red Flag, a small Marxist-Leninist party, basically made up of university students. Catalans from home well, from which other prominent leaders would come out such as

, Pilar del Castillo, Alfonso Carlos Comín,

, Jordi Borja -another intellectual guide from Colau- and his predecessor in the Ministry of Universities,

.

This revolutionary effervescence lasted for Subirats until 1980, when he left active trench politics. Although he will continue to be linked throughout his intellectual and academic career to public affairs and sociology. Author of a dozen books, such as

together with

, and visiting professor at numerous international universities, at the beginning of the nineties he became one of the leading thinkers of the Catalan left. But it will not be until 2014 when he decides to return to the political avant-garde together with Colau, first with the founding of Guanyen and later in Barcelona en Comú.

For Colau's populist project, orphan of referents and with very young cadres, Subirats serves as an intellectual alibi and a symbol of a certain prestige, as well as allowing him to draw a link with the old PSUC, a party in which the space of the commons / podemitas they claim to be his natural heirs. During the first steps of the mayor, Subirats will remain in a discreet background, but it will be after the application of article 155 by the Government of

, in October 2017, in response to the coup of the independence movement to the constitutional order, when Colau asks him to enter the consistory as Commissioner of Culture.

In the municipal elections of 2019, he was number two on the electoral list. "At a certain moment of crisis, when the departure of PSC from the Government was raised, Colau asked me to join. I lived very comfortable as a university professor and I have left the comfort zone," he stated in an interview with EL MUNDO little after its incorporation to the municipal government.

His arrival at the City Council raised certain hopes in the cultural sector for his academic prestige, his good manners and his moderate disposition. However, when Subirats decided to leave his post at the age of 70 last summer, coinciding with his retirement as a professor, very few mourned the loss or regretted his goodbye. It leaves behind a poor legacy, far removed from the cultural splendor of Barcelona de Maragall that some believed it would bring under its arm, and a cultural sector raised up in arms against the controversial mayor.

Among the most questioned decisions of Subirats are its sectarian policy of "cleaning names" of any reference to the Spanish monarchy on the streets of Barcelona or the rejection of the project to build a headquarters for the Hermitage museum in Barcelona.

Also the expenditure of 290,000 euros in the so-called "republican spring", a series of events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, and the waste in a monument consisting of six large stones in the neighborhood of Les Corts, which symbolized the walls of an old prison from 1936.

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