The expected future mayor of Barcelona, the antidesahucios activist Ada Colau ruled signed today by joining the two main sovereignist parties in Catalonia, CiU and ERC pact to declare in the near future the independence of the region in the northeast Spain .
“We will not sign leaves improper route,” he said in a television interview Colau, leader of the leftist platform Comú Barcelona, which consists, among others, by members of Podemos party, considered “brother” of the Greek Syriza.
His candidacy was the surprise in the municipal elections held on May 24 in Spain to get the most votes in the capital of Catalonia, far outstripping the mayor of the second city of Spain , the conservative nationalist Xavier Trias , of CiU.
However, Barcelona in Comú stayed away from an absolute majority, with eleven of the 41 council members who make up the council, so you will need pacts or at least specific support to govern some stability.
Colau discarded a priori possible pacts with the conservative Popular Party (PP) Mariano Rajoy and the centrist Citizens, and put in focus in the left-independence Republican Left (ERC), partners Catalan President Artur Mas in the regional parliament, and the (PSOE) and the Socialist Party CUP.
But ERC supeditó a possible agreement with Colau his support for the road route of independence signed with the party But Convergence and Union (CiU), which passes through the holding of early elections in the region on 27 September, which aim to become a referendum on secession.
The candidate of Barcelona in Comú He not declared independence but defends the right to decide Catalans. Last November voted to Catalonia as an independent state in the unofficial consultation in the region, with the participation of over two million Catalans, of which 80 percent said “yes” to secession.
In a context of economic crisis in Spain , the independence pulled muscle in Catalonia in recent years with large demonstrations for an official referendum on the political future and territorial cohesion of the region, whose economy is one of the strongest in the country.
Artur Mas announced in January an electoral advance and the sovereignist parties signed a roadmap to declare independence in the region within 18 months if they win at the ballot box “yes” to secession.
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