Barcelona breaks with the traditional parties – LaTercera (Record)

Barcelona, ​​Spain’s second city, today broke with the traditional parties and chose the leftist public platform where the Podemos party emerging to govern their city council is integrated.

In the municipal elections throughout the country, Barcelona Comú was the most votes in that city northwest of the country grouping, with 25.21 percent of the vote , according to the Ministry of Interior with almost all votes counted. This gives you a total of 11 councilors.

If no pact prevents other political groups, which seems unlikely, the candidate of the group, Ada Colau , snatch mayor Xavier Trias, the nationalist party Convergencia i Unio (CiU), which won 22.72 percent of the supports and ten councilors, compared to the 14 that had so far.

This is the Mayor that we achieved throughout the country, although not alone, and not competing with its own brand in the municipal elections, although in regional. Besides we, Barcelona in the community (BComú) brings together left parties and environmentalists Catalan Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, Equo, Initiative for Catalonia Greens and Procés Constituent.

In an appearance shortly after the results, Colau thanked citizens who, he said, “have been able to show that you can do politics differently”.

“No we had easy and we do not have anything easy. We have defamed, slandered, such barbarities of us with conviction, commitment, hope and illusion have shown that it could” , he said that with high probability be the new mayor of Barcelona.

The other emerging grouping, the centrist Citizens Albert Rivera, also burst onto the Barcelona city council, to get 11.7 percent of the vote and made five councilors, the same as the left-independence party ERC and its allies, who seized 11 percent of the vote.

The losers of the election date in the Catalan capital were the traditional parties with 9.65 percent of the support, the PSC Catalan Socialist Party was left with four councilors of the eleven had.

The Popular Party (PP) government of President Mariano Rajoy won 8.71 percent of the support, which will have only three councilors, compared with 9 consegidos in the last municipal elections in 2011.

Three councilors also obtained independence organization leftist Popular Unity Candidates (CUP).

The rise of emerging Podemos party was held by the secretary general of the organization, Pablo Iglesias, who came to celebrate the results of these elections. “It starts to be written in Spain in order of bipartisanship,” he said.

“We had expected a faster wear of the traditional parties, but the situation forces us to work hard to continue our efforts (…) in our very clear intention: that of political transformation.”

Iglesias went further and pointed to a situation of irreversible change until November, when planned general elections in Spain, who are not called to be held: “We take the challenge to win elections General the Popular Party, “he said.