Ada Colau He leaves the leadership of Catalunya en Comú with a small reprimand from the participants in the IV National Assembly of Municipalities. 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 for. A serious warning, not only for Colau, but also for the new tandem which will now be in charge of co-coordinating the training: Candela Lopez, who was already part of the outgoing triumvirate, and the city councilor of Barcelona Gemma Tarafa.
If yesterday was Colau’s farewell speech, today it was the vote on the management report of the team leaving the management: the said Colau and López and Jessica Albiach, president of the municipalities in the Parliament of Catalonia, who will retain her institutional position and will retain a place in the new executive but with less organic weight. And the vote was not entirely favorable to the triumvirate: the “no” votes and abstentions totaled more votes than those cast in favor of the leadership of the board. In total: 216, for; 169, against; and 82 abstentions.
Thus, the participants in the Assembly of Commons coldly say goodbye to Colau after leading the party since 2017 and winning the Barcelona mayoralty between 2015 and 2023 for the left ideological space beyond the PSC. Colau will join the presidency of the Sentit Comú Foundation, linked to the political formation and from which he will try to influence ideologically, without renouncing, 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, reiterates to the organic position he has held since 2019. The new political tandem is accompanied by an executive of 45 additional people, with 43% of its members new to the leadership. In this scenario, Aïna Vidal And Gérard Pisarello, spokesperson for the Catalan municipalities in the Lower House, also become spokesperson for the party. AND Joan Mena, until now spokesperson, is now Coordinating Secretary, a newly created position.
The party’s three mayors in the region, that of El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona), Lluís Mijoler; that of Montornés del Vallés (Barcelona), Jose Montero; and that of Santa Perpetua de Moguda (Barcelona), Isabel Garcia Ripoll, They are also part of the common goods department. Likewise, in the new executive, there is the MEP Jaume Asens; the training manager at Barcelona City Hall, Janet Sanz; the spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, David Cid the Secretary of State for Culture, Jordi Marti; and the deputy Eloi Badia.
Concerning the progress of the assembly day this Sunday, the political and organizational presentation was approved: 389 votes for, 60 against and 33 abstentions. At the start of the assembly process there were around 800 amendments recorded, Of which 50 arrived alive at the IVth National Assembly. Yesterday and today, they were debated and voted on in several blocks. But there is no news regarding their control by the outgoing and incoming leaders.
One of the most tense debates has been that which refers to the commons as “party” – as indicated in the Statutes – “organization” or “political and social movement”, both options to encompass more sensitivities, but this was rejected. Likewise, a name change has been postponed. The party is called Catalunya en Comú and an initiative proposed to rename it Comuns, but the proposal was compromised to keep the official name and also accept that of Comuns for the media and citizens.
