The announcement, this Monday, of the head of the municipal group of the Commons in Barcelona, that, closes one door and opens another. When 614 days are missing for the municipal elections of 2027, the march of Sanz La Tacha of the list of possible candidates. Self -speaking as a candidate the former mayor and totem of the party, currently embarked on the Humanitarian Aid Flot for Gaza, the door that opens is that of the candidacy of, deputy in Congress with charge at the table per second term, explain sources of the commons. Present in the press conference in which Sanz made the announcement, along with other former councilors, asked Pisarello for his future does not deny that he considers to present a candidacy and points out that “the scenario is very open” and that “it depends on what other people do”, without revealing who. Other names such as the MEP Jaume Asens or the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, have lost strength in recent months as possible candidates, sources of the party say.
A decade ago. Personal friend of Colau and former number two in the first municipal government of the mayor. Constitutional Law Professor, the deputy’s speech last July in the closing of the first Congress of the party gave clues, in what some have already read as the launch of a candidacy.
It was also during the Congress when the spokesman for the party, Max Canher, announced that before the end of the year, an electoral ticket that will be presented to lead Barcelona. ”It would be logical, the same sources point out, that the Tandem would be completed by the councilor in the Gemma Tarafa City Council, also of founder and very close to Colau. It is one of the names that can relieve Sanz in the presidency of the municipal group.
In July, after two days of meeting with the militancy in which the official message was the commitment to a “Broad Front” of the left in view of the municipal ones of 2027, Pisarello and Tarafa had similar interventions. With a reputation as a good speaker, Pisarello was more explicit. He specified: advocating for speaking with prominent names of the CUP (which days before had launched the idea of a left -wing candidacy under new acronyms), neighborhoods and even PSC: “Close a list implies speaking, dinner, dancing together, with our differences, but putting in value what unites us. Let’s honor what we are, commonWe know what will cost, but we cannot desert, ”he said. Tarafa admitted the loss of electoral support in 2023 and opted for a time of“ alliances and generosity ”and“ tending bridges that are broken ”.
The document of the presentation voted in Congress found that “the sum of Barcelona in Comú, and is represented by the first electoral force of the city, which opens a window of strategic opportunity”, although in 73 pages the word candidacy did not quote. It remains to be seen if in the primaries there will be any candidacy. In an organization that presumes to listen to citizens and militancy, but it is difficult for names to bend with Pisarello. If there is discomfort, anything is never broken in the common ones, so far, as happened in the Congress of Catalonia in Comú of almost a year ago, when the management report of the outgoing address of Ada Colau, Jessica Albiach and Candela López obtained only 46% favorable vote. Another prominent crisis and caused by the lack of internal democracy was that of June 2023 ,.
Sanz: “Take the step. They are 14 years of exclusive dedication”
He was in the opposition of the City Council for ICV during the 2011-2015 mandate (with Xavier Trias as mayor) and was the deputy mayor of Urban Planning during the two mandates of Mayor Colau (a position from which he promoted the Superilla project, the union of the trams for the diagonal or taking space to the cars to gain public space) and took the relay to the leader of the commons as president of the municipal group when he left in the municipal group October last year. “There are 14 years of exclusive dedication, now it’s time to give way to take care of.
The current one is the fourth term followed by Sanz, 14 years of councilor in a formation whose ethical code fixes a stop of two, extendable to three, as is the case. The commons have always said that the first mandate does not count, because Sanz militated in ICV, the party that gave legal umbrella and initial financial muscle to Barcelona in Comú.
“I leave a strong and brave municipal group,” he said about a decision he has communicated in recent days, but some councilors of his municipal group learned of the press. Sanz spoke of the former mayor as “a woman as an example.” “If I have a father in politics, it’s called Ricard Gomà [presente en la rueda de prensa]. And if I have a mother, it is called Ada Colau. ”Sanz has presided over the non -permanent commission of study on the problem of housing in the Barcelona City Council.
