Former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau linked her departure from the plenary session to the “right turn” and the refusal of the current mayor, Jaume Collboni, to include the Comuns in the municipal government. “At this moment, I can be more useful outside than inside,” he said.
In an interview with TV3, Colau confirmed that he would leave the Barcelona City Council in the plenary session next October. The leader of the Comuns attributed his departure to the “surprise and disappointment” generated in his party that Collboni did not include them in his municipal government after voting, with the PP, for his investiture.
“Collboni did not want to make a left-wing pact,” lamented Colau, who also criticized the “privatization” and the “turn to the right” that, according to him, the current municipal government is making. “The majority of progressive voters in Barcelona expected a left-wing government, but the mayor did not want to explore it,” he added.
From 2015 to 2023, the Comuns went from 177,000 votes to 132,000 in the city. After facilitating Collboni’s investiture, Barcelona en Comú turned to the opposition with the ambition of one day entering the municipal government, but the party found that the PSC prefers to agree on a coalition with the ERC and leave them aside.
Colau denied “being an obstacle” to a left-wing pact and defended that the Comuns remain in opposition in Barcelona to be “the alternative” to the current mayor in the 2027 elections, without ruling out being a candidate.
