Colau, ‘victim’ of his own talk and demagoguery

Ada Colau should not remain in her position for another minute. At least, that is how it would have to be if the mayor of Barcelona unequivocally agreed with the scrupulous Code of Ethics of her party. He has already announced that he will not. And his decision is not trivial, insofar as it underlies the umpteenth proof that those social movements turned into political formations that presented themselves in the elections for the whole of Spain, self-erected bastions of regeneration, gradually fall to the ground.

two like flies before the stickiest honey: moral hypocrisy.

The leader of Barcelona en Com has been summoned to appear next March before the Barcelona Investigating Court number 21. Try to clarify if irregularly granted grants to entities linked to him and his party. Specifically, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor investigates whether associations such as the Platform for People Affected by Mortgage, the Alliance Against Energy Poverty or Engineers Sense Fronters were paid for studies carried out on Africa or America. According to the documentation provided by the complainants,

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are some of the titles of the works financed through the coffers of the Consistory and that, presumably,

. For this reason, Colau could have committed crimes of prevarication, contracting fraud or embezzlement of public funds, among others.

The first thing to demand from a politician is coherence with his proposals for change to achieve a better society through the strengthening of institutions and the fight against corruption. Colau is part of the group of leaders of the so-called new politics -such as Iglesias, Echenique or Monedero- who

and, when they crash into him, they completely forget their words.

Where is the transparency and cleanliness of Colau’s public life when, the object of an investigation, he refuses to resign, contradicting the Code of Ethics whose demands and scruples have been his main reasons for being in politics. The elected officials of Barcelona in Com

for a judicial accusation related to corruption and to abandon their post if they are accused of committing these crimes with damage to public funds, as is the case.

Once again, when the moment arrives, it becomes apparent that there was never the will to convert those principles and commitments into actions to dignify public life. that they were just