In 2010, Carmen de Mairena was on the list for mayor of Barcelona by the Reusenca Independent Coordinator. They were different times, you will tell me, but the “media signing” of the popular television personality, as his agency pointed out, was “knowledgeable like no one else about Barcelona’s Chinatown.” They only intended to make profitable the media pull of Mairena.
Today, three decades later, the popularity seems to be a esplai: “Politics can be sexy, it can be fun and I can do things,” he said the other day on television, following in the footsteps of Carmen de Mairena, shortly after running as a candidate for Barcelona en Comú.
The Urban Police sealed Mairena’s apartment for practicing prostitution; Bob Pop boasts of having abused drunk men. Similarities… In Italy, Cicciolina, a porn actress who dedicated herself to exposing her breasts on public television after being elected deputy, was also popular. Let’s see who can overcome that sexy politics.
The point is that politics is something serious, I think, and I also think that our representatives should take it that way, especially because it benefits or harms us all. And they have also had to think about that, as they have not taken long to meet to modify their code of ethics, aware that they must set up a municipal candidacy for the 2027 elections, to prevent the candidacy from “getting out of hand.”
There are two internal rules that, although they seem unimportant, are not: one, the candidacies must be presented in tandem, that is, there will not be a single candidate, but two leading each programmatic proposal -let us avoid hyper-leadership-; the other, the time limit to hold a public office within the formation was two terms and a third that could be extended exceptionally. From now on, the maximum term will be twelve years. Let’s forget the electoral debacle of 2023 and that it did not last the entire legislature in the City Council. “It is good not to continue in institutions or places out of inertia,” he said, explaining his departure from the City Council when he had been in the opposition for less than two years. Thus, if Colau wanted to run again, even though she doesn’t have a second person with whom to do the tandem either, we could think that the doors would be open.
Given what we have seen, it seems that until now, and following the previous criteria, the only candidacy that seems likely to meet the requirements is that of Gerardo Pisarello, who would foreseeably run with Gemma Tarafa. Both, moreover, whether you like their political stance more or less, focused on working on their own.
It wouldn’t be bad, at this point, for both Ada and Bob to remember the 2019 election announcement, where Ada Colau, the mayor, met Ada Colau, an activist, and they had a face-to-face conversation. Are you sure you’re more useful where you are now?
Well, that’s what I ask myself, one about his activism, and the other about the jokes. Of course, God forbid, maybe they will show up together on the same list. In Bob’s words, “to make politics sexy and fun.”
