Barcelona is at the gates of some municipal elections that the 28 next May. The Municipal Campaign months ago that the mayor began, in fact Cool It has been for years of electoral campaign. Difficult to deny their communication skills, their management of emotions and their ability to propose simple solutions to very complex problems.
The appearance of the candidacy ofTriasIt has come in handy for the mayoress at a time when the polls pointed to aimportant rejectionfrom citizens to the management of the first mayor. A very remote management of the city of the meeting and the consensus that had characterizedthe Barcelona Maragalliana.
The appearance ofTrias, veteran converging politic.Colau and Trias both propose themselves as leaders oftwo city models confronted. Polarization and media noise make it difficult for citizens to reach a city model away from both thepopulismcolauita as of thebusinessconvergent.
Barcelona, as a recent extensive report of the Financial Times (How Barcelona Lost Its Way), needs Recover the course and the energy lost in the last decade. A drift caused by a secessionist procés and a populist management that, based on identity withdrawal and confrontation, moved away the city of their cosmopolitan vocation and its solidarity capacity in the construction of consensus.
Barcelona needs a government that believes in the city aswealth creation tool, capable of applying distributive policies to combat inequality. It is time to bet on a more diversified and resilient economic model, with activities with greater added value and with companies capable of leading innovative development and generating the attraction of talent and knowledge. A city that bets without complexes for public-private collaboration, where profitability not only has an economic but also social component
Theglobalizationwithout control and thepandemicThey have left deep scars in the social fabric by increasing inequality. It will therefore necessary a broad institutional consensus that allows applying policies that generate economic activity and therefore employment opportunities in the case of Barcelona urges that institutional consensus to address a issue as priority as the deficiencies on the offer of public housing and insufficient access to affordable housing.
The Barcelona Federal District (BDF), as some call the Metropolitan City, should not give up the development of all types of infrastructures of social and scientific-technical, to those of mobility that they bet on sustainability and intermodality. Also airports that allow intercontinental connections with the most important cities on the planet.
He tactical urbanism It must be compatible with mobility, the right of citizens to be able to travel through their city without barriers. Urbanism must be at the service of mobility, growth factor of economic activity. "The Supermanzana Colauita destroys the equality of the urban space of the Eixample, the isotropic mesh of the Pla Cerdà, creating privileged streets without traffic and with an imposed green and downloading all the pollution and circulation to the remaining streets." All this without a mobility plan and a remodeling of public transport that responds to this new scenario.
It is urgent to bet on onemetropolitan governancethat helps to face the future of the city thinking about its place in the world.The mayoress of Barcelona has resigned from acting as president of theWITHAnd he has acted rather as authoritarian mayor who tries to impose his tactical urban planning model outside his surrounding region.
retrieve thecourseand theenergyThe capital requires fleeing the catastrophic debate and disqualification to everything that has been done in these last eight years, but nevertheless it is urgent to build a story supported by the city model previously pointed out.
The return of the convergent candidate cannot make us forget the innocuousness of his mandate and the shadows that accompanied him.His right hand, the deputy mayorAntoni Vives, responsible for Urbanism, had to face several accusations for irregularities and was convicted of corruption in January 2021.
The other candidates for the city's government, ERC and PSC, have appeared on many occasions as companions of the Colauita government. The "Republicans" have been the crutch of the commons in their decisions Budget and they present themselves as their main allies in the city government in exchange for the unconditional support that the commons lends to the Government of the Generalitat. On the other hand, the PSC will cost a great effort to conve alternative model from the city away from the populism of the commons and the convergent business. The PSC should be able to lead the previously pointed city model and at the same time try to explain to citizens the reason for their complicity and indolence in some actions of the current municipal government.
Author: Manuel Gomez Acosta
Fuente: Global Chronicle
