- Elections The Socialists become the first force in Catalonia but fail to win in Barcelona
Xavier Trias returned from his political retirement with the sole objective of expelling Ada Colau from the Mayor of Barcelona, eight years after the leader of the commons snatched the rod of command of the Catalan capital. And yesterday it achieved its purpose.
The candidate of Junts – who has deliberately hidden the acronym of his party throughout the campaign to cajole the non-independence voter – won the victory by getting 11 councilors, by the ten of the socialist Jaume Collboni and the nine of the current mayor of Barcelona.
The technical tie drawn by all the polls until 28-M was maintained during a good part of the scrutiny. The PSC started in the lead, but, in a final hurdle, the convergent rose to the first position to no longer abandon it.
"I will be mayor of Barcelona," Trias proclaimed, after confessing that he himself did not expect the result three hours before uttering those words. But is Trias really guaranteed investiture? No, because a three-way pact between the PSC, the commons and ERC, a reissue of the old tripartite could make Collboni mayor.
- PSC
- Barcelona
- CKD
- Ada Colau
- Xavier Trias
- Catalan elections
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