Elisenda Alamany, ERC: “If we move forward in vicinity and financing, we will continue talking to the budgets” | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

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In just a few days, Elisenda Alamany (Barcelona, ​​42 years) will flip six months as quantity two of the Republican Esquerra. A piece that alternates with being the top of the rows of the municipal group within the Catalan capital, the place it places management of tourism within the focus. In Barcelona and the Generalitat the recipe is similar: a demanding opposition however that has the hand to new agreements if these which are on the desk are fulfilled, such because the switch of Rodalies or the singular financing.

Ask. How was the expertise of carrying the double social gathering hat and city corridor?

Answer. Everything responds to the technique of approaching folks’s issues from proximity coverage and has lots of worth that the final secretary can also be governor of the nation’s capital.

P. In what notice an ERC militant the change within the dome?

R. You discover that we discuss a lot clearer and that we’re a lot much less permeable criticism than different events with respect to what we obtain.

P. What discomforts have detected between the bases?

R. The nation is weaker than ten years in the past, with out of date infrastructure, Catalan at a time of setback, an financial mannequin of little added worth, difficulties in accessing a house …

DVD 1269 Barcelona, ​​06/04/2025 Elisenda Alamany, number two of ERC, in front of Park Guell. Photo: Gianluca Battista

P. What will you do to recuperate presence within the City Council?

R. We have to put the battle in Barcelona to protect your id. And this implies neighborhood insurance policies, proximity commerce, the vitality of Catalan, entry to housing. In the kind of work that the capital of the nation affords in the present day and salaries that don’t enable us to reside in our metropolis.

P. When will the time come to mark your personal profile after a constructive opposition?

R. We are completely different from the governments which have handed via the town. We are completely different with the very fact of the commons who’ve needed to shut the town at many instances. And we’re completely different with the Socialist Party, who at many instances have merely needed to be one other capital in an autonomous neighborhood.

P. Are you opening to barter Barcelona’s budgets by 2026?

R. It is simply too quickly to speak about this. There is not any invoice on the desk.

P. And would you prefer to be the mayors?

R. It appears good to me that politicians are in locations for a very long time to consolidate initiatives. I’ve been in Barcelona for six years: I need my metropolis and I’ve a duty as a result of as a result of I fear what I see.

P. Therefore, would you want?

R. I’m president of the municipal group and I’m delighted to proceed main the challenge.

P. Is it self -criticism about how the try and enter the Government of Collboni was managed?

R. They made debates similar to these now, however then we entered a logic of the National Congress that prevented us from speaking about Barcelona within the first place. What we do agree with the Federation is that it’s a must to discuss extra concerning the metropolis and fewer about us.

P. It is placing that the present government of the Federation doesn’t select to include members of the loser candidacy …

R. I’ve to respect the choice of the present Federation.

P. Let’s discuss concerning the vacationer charge. Does it make sense to deal with Barcelona the identical as, for instance, L’Hospitalet?

R. The capital of the nation can’t be handled in the identical manner because the nation. Barcelona is a metropolis in fixed excessive season and the best insurance policies in the present day are these of return. From right here we will see the lace that shall be within the subsequent negotiations on the vacationer charge within the Parliament.

P. Doesn’t you see then a necessity to handle the issue of the speed on the metropolitan degree?

R. No.

P. The 10,000 flooring that Collboni guarantees to shut. Do you suppose they are going to be an efficient measure for entry to housing?

R. Barcelona is a worldwide metropolis the place Barcelona competed with folks with the next buying energy on the planet. And, due to this fact, what’s key’s to restrict demand. The buy of second residences should be restricted.

P. As?

R. What is requested is that individuals who haven’t resided in Catalonia at the very least for 5 years can not purchase a house.

P. There is a change of speech of his social gathering on compliance with the agreements by the Government of Illa. Does that open the door to barter the budgets?

R. If we advance in neighborhood, we are going to proceed speaking. If we advance in singular financing, we are going to proceed speaking. And if we don’t advance, the Legislature shall be difficult rather a lot to Salvador Illa.

P. Is Elisenda Alamany a potential presidential if the calendar of amnesty just isn’t allowed to Oriol Junqueras?

R. I’m satisfied, with my wholesome skepticism, which, as has a constitutional meeting the regulation of amnesty, I hope there’s a democratic meeting additionally of the judges. And, due to this fact, Junqueras will be introduced.

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