Ada Colau He leaves the leadership of Catalunya en Comú with a small reprimand from those attending the IV National Assembly of the Commons. The management report of the outgoing management, co-led by the former mayor of Barcelona, was approved this Sunday with more votes against and abstentions than in favor. A serious warning, not only for Colau, but also for the new tandem that from today will be in charge of co-coordination of the formation: Candela Lopez, who was already in the outgoing triumvirate, and the Barcelona councilor Gemma Tarafa.
If yesterday was Colau’s farewell speech, today was the vote on the management report of the team leaving the management: the aforementioned Colau and López and Jessica Albiach, president of the commons in the Parliament of Catalonia, who will continue in her institutional position and will maintain a place in the new executive but with less organic weight. And the vote has not been entirely favorable for the triumvirate: the “noes” and abstentions have added up to more votes than those expressed in favor of the management’s management. In total: 216, in favor; 169, against; and 82 abstentions.
In this way, those attending the commons assembly coldly say goodbye to Colau after leading the party since 2017 and having won the mayor of Barcelona between 2015 and 2023 for the left-wing ideological space beyond the PSC. Colau will join the presidency of the Sentit Comú Foundation, linked to the political formation and from which it will try to influence ideologically, without giving up, in any case, returning to the first political line.
López and Tarafa are the new co-leaders of Cataluya en Comú. His candidacy was the only one that reached the assembly. López, who will leave his record in Congress, repeats in the organic position, which he has held since 2019. The new political tandem is accompanied by an executive of 45 more people, with 43% of its members who are new to the leadership. In this scenario, Aina Vidal and Gerardo Pisarello, spokespersons for the Catalan commons in the Lower House, also become the spokespersons for the party. AND Joan Mena, spokesperson to date, is as of today the Secretary of Coordination, a newly created position.
The three mayors that the party has in the region, that of El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona), Lluís Mijoler; that of Montornés del Vallés (Barcelona), José Montero; and that of Santa Perpetua de Moguda (Barcelona), Isabel Garcia Ripoll, They are also part of the leadership of the commons. Likewise, in the new executive there is the MEP Jaume Asens; the leader of training at Barcelona City Council, Janet Sanz; the spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, David Cid the Secretary of State for Culture, Jordi Martí; and the deputy Eloi Badia.
Regarding the development of the assembly day this Sunday, the political and organizational presentation has been approved: 389 votes in favor, 60 against and 33 abstentions. At the start of the assembly process there were about 800 amendments registered, 50 of which arrived alive at the IV National Assembly. Yesterday and today they have been debated and voted on in several blocks. But there have been no news regarding their control by the outgoing and incoming leadership.
One of the discussions with the greatest relative tension has been the one referring to the commons as “party” -as stated in the Statutes-, “organization” or “political and social movement”, these two options to encompass more sensitivities, but it has been rejected. Likewise, a name change has been postponed. The party is called Catalunya en Comú and an initiative proposed that it be renamed Comuns, but the proposal has been compromised to maintain the official name and also accept that of Comuns for the media and citizens.
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