The project of Budgets presented by Jaume Collboni by 2024 it will reach the plenary session of the Barcelona City Council this Friday without sufficient support to be definitively approved.
The accounts currently have the votes in favor of ERC (with whom the PSC reached a budget agreement) and the votes against BComú, Junts, PP and VOX: that is, it adds 15 favorable votes (of the 41 councilors that the council has) and 26 against.
After removing the vote in october not having sufficient support, Collboni presented again in February a proposal with the same basis as the previous one, and that was processed in an extraordinary Economic Commission with the support of ERC and BComúwith which the PSC reaches a majority of 24 councilors.
The Comuns, led by the former mayor, There’s Colauthey warned that They would facilitate the processing in commission in exchange for the government agreeing with them on a government agreement linked to the Budgets: The negotiation has been extended by 30 days (between the processing in the Commission and the vote this Friday).
With the ERC votes secured, the Collboni government focused on talks with the Comuns, since your vote is decisive upon reaching the majority of the council (24 councilors) and the socialists consider it to be a “left-wing budget.”
However, the positions of both in these conversations have not changed: BComú has insisted on its condition to enter the government and the PSC has never wanted to link both issues.
Exchange of proposals
Thus, the negotiations these days have focused fundamentally on a proposal that the Comuns transferred to Collboni on February 28, setting out its conditions for a “progressive, stable and broad” governmentwhich included his budget claims tied to a government agreement.
Los socialists They responded on March 8 with a counterproposal that “includes the details of the acceptance of 90% of the budget proposals they had proposed”which represents 90 million for this year and 300 million for the entire mandate, according to PSC sources.
For the Commons, this counterproposal is not enoughbecause they expected from the socialists a proposal for a government agreement to continue promoting the policies they have led for the last eight years.
Last meeting this Thursday
This Thursday at noon, the spokesperson for BCommonJanet Sanz, has announced a meeting with the PSC, from which they expected a proposal regarding the government agreement, something that ultimately has not happened and that is why Colau’s people will maintain their ‘no’ to the Budgeta position that the formation’s bases ratified on Tuesday.
Given this scenario, if there is no change of script and the opposition knocks down the accounts of Collboni, the mayor can subject them to a question of confidence.
The question of trust
Through this mechanism, can present them again in an extraordinary plenary session linked to a question of trust and they will be voted on again.
If the plenary session knocks them down again, A period of 30 days will open in which an alternative majority can be configured to elect a new mayor: If this majority is not configured, the accounts will be approved automatically.