Barcelona (EFE) Collboni would not have detached himself from the commons, “perhaps things would have been different.” This was stated in statements to EFE, after the constitutive session of the Barcelona City Council, last Saturday, the four votes of the PP, added to those of socialists and commoners, were decisive in electing Collboni as the new mayor and thus avoiding that the rod of command fell on Trias, the most voted on 28M. Sirera has reproached Trias for his approach to Ernest Maragall to govern together: “There is no need of closing any pact with ERC, he reaches the plenary session of the constitution of the city council with a pact closed with ERC, which is presented together with Bildu to the Senate”. In this way, “Trias openly demonstrated that his will was to pay attention to what he had said “days ago the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, when he proposed a common sovereignist “front” in all the institutions.”Trias, during the electoral campaign, took down the ‘estelada’ from the balcony and hid it in the nightstand. But then he decided to pay attention to the mandate he received from President Aragonès”, he denounced. According to Sirera, “surely if Trias had presented himself alone, pledging to govern alone, and Collboni would have been on the other side with Ada Colau, maybe things would have been different”. “But since we cannot know this, I am satisfied with how things have gone”, added Sirera, since “Barcelona does not have a separatist government or one in which Colau’s populists are present”. Faced with Trias’s criticism of the PP for his “moral debt” with him, having been falsely accused during the government of Mariano Rajoy of having an account in Switzerland, Sirera replied: “I come here with absolutely clean hands , I have no debt beyond paying for the apartment in which I live. I am not responsible for that”. Regarding the expression “que els bombin” (that they mend), which Trias dedicated to PSC, PP and commons, Sirera considers that “it offends all the citizens of Barcelona”, since it is a “ lack of respect that is inappropriate for someone who has been mayor of Barcelona” and transmits a “feeling of wanting to appropriate the institutions”.ARAGONÈS REPROACHED FOR HIS “IMPROPER” SPEECHOn the other hand, Sirera explained that on the same Saturday, June 17, when the councilors of the Barcelona City Council, led by Collboni, attended the traditional reception at the Palau de la Generalitat, he felt “annoyed” by the speech of the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, when he said that “the shadow of a State agreement” was projected over the election of the new mayor. It was an institutional speech, which was inappropriate for a president of the Generalitat”, Sirera recounted, before adding: “He did not answer me, he turned around and left”. Sirera has reproached Aragonès for acting as “the leader of ERC”, which represents “a lack of respect for all Catalans”, because “he must have an institutional function”.
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