The Círculo Ecuestre held this Monday, April 24, a colloquium led by Eva Parera, Valents candidate in the Barcelona municipal elections.
After the presentation by the president of the Círculo Ecuestre, Antonio Delgado, the politician held a dialogue with Joaquín Luna, a journalist and columnist, an expert on elections, from La Vanguardia, who moderated the event.
The act began with the moderator's question about the vote that Manuel Valls gave to Ada Colau in the last municipal elections, to which the mayoral candidate was blunt: “There were only two options. It was a bad result that had to be accepted and a decision made”. In turn, she confessed her regret at the trust placed in the PSC: "I regret considering that the PSC would have the ability to refute Colau's policies and remove Maragall from government decisions."
Given the electoral photography that will take place in Barcelona in a month, Parera stated that "a government of Colau and Maragall is the worst thing that can happen to Barcelona", for this reason he explained to the members of the Círculo Ecuestre that, from Valents, aims to “governing for all people, since we have spent a long time with governments that only govern in favor of a part of society”.
"Valents is the opposite of resignation, which is why we have to convey to the people of Barcelona that the useful vote is to give the vote to the political formation that they consider will do well." "We cannot allow people to resign themselves to paying attention to the polls, because voting for the lesser evil does not work, you have to vote with conviction," she argued.
The Valents candidate explained that her party "has a very important power at the communication level on social networks." This strong point has made the party "reach a young audience." “I am running to make a better city for future generations. We are working for their future and their involvement in politics is a common good for the future,” she argued.
Eva Parera presented her formation as a genuine party of "people with no complexes without fear of criticism" who have "put on the table debates that no one was having in this city, such as squatting or the increase in unaccompanied minors."
The policy stated that “on May 28 I will meet with my executive board and we will see what we do. I don't have to ask permission or pay a toll. We are not anyone's franchise."
Within the framework of the interview, Parera valued the work of Ciudadanos, but stressed that "the training made various mistakes that sentenced it: not having a vocation for government and leaving." Given this result, the candidate for the municipal elections wanted to make it clear that "Valents is not going to leave, nor is it going to leave Catalonia." Continuing the conversation, Parera applauded the "political lessons that Isabel Díaz Ayuso has carried out in Madrid", claiming that "if Ayuso were to do politics in Catalonia, she would be from Valents without a doubt".
Joaquín Luna asked Eva Parera about the magic formula to revive Barcelona, to which the mayor of Valents assured that "today we have some activists governing, both in the Generalitat and in the Barcelona City Council". After that statement, he pointed out that his political formation "is not made up of activists, but of managers who know what it is to generate public money." “We are going to turn the town hall into a useful instrument for all citizens”, announced.
Parera has expressed in the Círculo Ecuestre that “Barcelona is an unpleasant city of which nothing remains, only the name”. For this reason, the Valents candidate proposed ending some of the major problems that, in her opinion, affect the development of the city, such as "squatting."
As part of her intervention in the dialogue with La Vanguardia, Eva Parera announced that "it is possible to reposition the Catalan capital as the capital of the Mediterranean and turn it into the economic capital of Spain, reviving the Barcelona brand". After criticizing the Spanish Government's management of the expansion of the Airport, the Valents candidate strongly opposed the application of bike lanes on the city's expressways, a measure that, in her opinion, "is made to impoverish the city by creating ghettos like Ciutat Vella”: “they are isolating districts so that people do not communicate. We can no longer cross Barcelona from end to end in 15 minutes, we have 15-minute neighborhoods,” she opined.
Parera concluded her speech by assessing that "Barcelona has hit rock bottom and cannot afford four more years like this." Faced with this "emergency situation", she expressed her willingness to lead the change alone: "I don't want to get together with anyone because I don't see anyone with half a brain."
