A few days after two years of the municipal elections of 2023, the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, has advanced to the event and has taken stock of his management at the head of the City Council of the Catalan capital. The message that the socialist has released after projecting a video is that “Barcelona improves”: “The indicators in cleaning, security and housing improve,” he presumed. And he has supported his message in data such as the reduction of concern for cleaning in municipal surveys (from 16% to 5%), the fall of crimes (15% in Ciutat Vella) and arrests, and the reduction of the price of rentals in the new contracts (5.4% the first quarter), the result of the application of the Housing Law, or the construction of 5,000 public homes. The mayor also stressed that his executive has maintained “the good decisions of previous mandates”, or even “accelerated or corrected.” He has also checked his tourism management, raising fiscal pressure and negotiating with the port a reduction of cruise ships; or having “disenchanted plans that had been unemployed for years”, such as Vallcarca or La Teixonera. And he recalled inherited projects that have ended (Glòries) or continued (via laietana, La Rambla or Meridiana) .Collboni, which was invested with the votes of the commons and the PP, governs in the minority (with only 10 of 41 councilors) after a failed attempt to incorporate ERC into its executive. For this “accountability” has chosen the solemnity of the Saló de Cent, a regular scenario of its presentations. And he has appeared wrapped by his five deputy mayor and councilors, his managers, and before dozens of high positions. The first mayor has not referred to his minority political situation, but asked about the issue has recalled that the agreements achieved have been with “the progressive forces”, ERC and common. “We would like to follow this path, without excluding Junts,” and recalled that when negotiating, its executive has “accused situations of internal debate in the opposition, about its situation or leadership, which sometimes has hindered interlocution. I hope it will be resolved.” Regarding his personal future, he said he would like to continue beyond this mandate. In his extensive appearance he has also alluded to “the good economic health of Barcelona”, with the unemployment in historical minimums, those affiliated with social security at maximum, or a growth of 3.8%, superior “to the Catalan and Spanish average.” And has cited the attraction of 650 million euros of investment, and the positive impact it entails for tax revenues. The climate plan “initiated in previous mandates” or social investment, the largest per person and year (259 euros). In large figures, the Executive has quantified by 85% the government plan that they have started or completed. 29% of the planned shares are executed and 56% in the execution phase, said the mayor. On the pending projects he has admitted that in the list are the 30% public housing modifications that Barcelona forces to make the promoters and the Civics Ordinance, the Central Park of Vallcarca, the one of the Sea Bella or to announce which will be the first interior of apple that will turn into the green zone. This is the most interpretive in these two years, Collboni has appealed the decibels with which businessmen and patron sides of the city Against the policies of her predecessor, Ada Colau. Like the preserve to hotels, veto to polluting cars, street patifications or the imposition of 30% public housing. But the management of mass tourism that continues to grow and housing access problems remain the great challenge of the city and source of discomfort among citizens. In fact, the mayor has made the house his flag and promoted the Alliance of European Ediles for Housing, who have demanded Brussels more funds and decision -making capacity for cities. FLEXIBILIZE 30% OR APPROVED A NEW CIVISM ORDER. The Neoconvergentes, who won the elections with 11 councilors, evoke “the investiture of shame” that the Mayor’s Office took to Xavier Trias and, in the mouth of their boss of ranks, Jordi Martí Galbis, they say that “survival is the only objective of Collboni.” The commons (of whom Collboni was a minority partner in the two mandates of Colau) criticize “the inability to govern, the lack of prominent projects and the servile attitude towards the lobbies” of the mayor, in the words of Janet Sanz. And the PP, led by Daniel Siera in the Consistory, presumes that he has vetoed a municipal government “with separatists or with Colau”, and accuses the mayor of “maintaining the spirit” of the mayor. ERC, on the other hand, has chosen to set your hand and assert an opposition that they understand constructive, after agreeing on items in the Catalan budgets, housing or tourism rehabilitation. (Tagstotranslate) Catalonia
