Ada Colau This weekend closes a stage in her political career that began abruptly when she became mayor of Barcelona in 2015 with no experience in public management. Between 2015 and 2023 she was the first mayor of the Catalan capital and until last month she maintained her councilor status. Now, after seven years at the head of Catalunya en Comú, he also leaves the leadership of the group. And it does so by asking the new leaders to “reconnect” with citizens so that the commons become “a useful tool” and change “the state of things.”
The former mayor said goodbye this Saturday as co-coordinator of the commons, as did Jéssica Albiach, leader of the party in the Parliament of Catalonia, highlighting that “the proposal of the commons, today, must focus on generating spaces, proposals, dreams and hopes that go in the direction directly opposite to that of helplessness. He said it at the start of the IV Assembly of the Commons which is being held this weekend in Barcelona and reiterating the need for his party, which has a presence in the Council of Ministers, to fight against the extreme right and “the powerful.”
Along these lines, Colau has pointed out that the main problem of the left is to “strongly reconnect with citizens”, so that “they see us as a useful tool to challenge the current state of things and change it.” In addition, he has sent a message to his members of Sumar, a political group of which they are part, remembering that the common people want “a Catalonia with its own and committed voice”, thus ruling out any type of attempt to dissolve them into a national-level formation.
This Saturday Albiach also intervened, who like Colau leaves the co-coordination of Catalunya en Comú. The head of the commons in the Autonomous Chamber has charged against the PSC, the investiture partner of the Generalitat, whom she has accused of not being sufficiently left-wing when addressing issues such as the expansion of the Barcelona airport, the expansion of the network of highways and the problem of access to housing. Furthermore, Albiach has ruled out any type of pact with Junts, as a right-wing party: “Neither right-wing policies nor pacts with the right.”
Colau and Albiach will give way, this weekend, to Candela Lopez and Gemma Tarafa as co-coordinators of the Catalan commons, who will have the task of recomposing a space in the renewal phase and weakened. López will continue in the same position but will leave his seat in the Congress of Deputies and will share control of the party’s helm with Barcelona councilor Gemma Tarafa. López, in his speech, emphasized placing political formation as an “engine of hope and change in Catalonia.”
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