Barcelona (EFE) one.
This is how he explained it before the Junts national council, after Collboni was elected mayor yesterday thanks to the in extremis support of the commons and the PP, which thus prevented the Junts candidate, Xavier Trias, from seizing the command rod despite having been the most voted in the 28M elections and having the endorsement of ERC.
At the opening of the meeting of the National Junts Council, held at the Axa Auditorium in Barcelona, Trias has admitted that, if he is not mayor, it is “largely because of” him.
“I wanted to make a government with the Socialists, I thought it was very important that there be a strong government in Barcelona, but once again it has been shown that one thing is the illusions that I may have, that I am a bit special, and another thing It’s reality,” he said.
The pitfall of negotiation
Trias has recounted what was the stumbling block of his negotiation with the PSC: “Collboni wanted, of all, that we submit, we split the mayoralty, two years him and two years me. I said no way.”
“Everything that has happened has proven us right. Depending on who you cannot go with, ”Trias has sentenced, applauded by his party colleagues standing up before starting his speech.
He has been especially hurt with the behavior of the Socialists. “It is people who tell you: before I do a bitch I will call you. They have not called me yet ”, he commented.
The “moral debt” of the PP with Trias
He has also been very hurt with the PP and with its municipal leader in Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, who in his post-electoral conversations reminded him of the false accusation that was launched against him on the eve of the 2015 municipal elections, in the so-called “Operation Catalonia ”, when “they invented that he had 12 million euros outside” to “destroy” him politically.
“Dani, the PP has a moral debt with me,” Trias told Sirera, but the warning did not have an effect, because the popular “doesn’t care.”
“Their strategy is to eliminate us,” Trias added, convinced that they want to “have control over” the independentistas and “they believe that one of their obligations is to throw us out of all positions of power.”
“I say it and I repeat it: that they mend!”
After in his speech yesterday Saturday in the plenary session of the Barcelona City Council, he blurted out an explicit “that they dart” (‘que els bombin’) at socialists, popular and common people to express his indignation, today he has repeated it again.
“I say it and I repeat it: let them mend!” Trias exclaimed angrily, who has appealed to his people to face these forces “not out of anger or rancor”, but “from an intelligent confrontation”. doing “what’s best for the people” and being “united”.
Aware of the internal struggles within JxCat, he has called for unity: “We have made a great candidacy. Please, let’s not spoil it ”, he stressed.
“Our problem is a humiliating dependency”
With this operation to prevent a separatist from reaching the mayoralty of Barcelona, in his opinion, “these people have aroused a new feeling”, which consists of people like Trias himself, who are committed to “dialogue” and not to “confrontation”, consider that it is necessary to “say that enough is enough”.
“We have to make them bajar of the donkey at once. We are willing to look for collaborations, but not to be humiliated, mistreated and make us a little more dependent every day”, she underlined.
For Trias, the “problem” of Catalonia “is not independence”, but “how dependent we are, it is a humiliating dependency and one that we cannot tolerate”.