The incumbent mayor and Barcelona in Comú candidate in the 2023 municipal elections, Ada Colau, has doubted that her opponents have "an alternative model" to hers for the city of Barcelona and has warned that Xavier Trias, "only wants to turn back”, while from BComú, “we will continue working for a more feminist, greener and more proudly diverse city”. This is what the Comuns candidate for Barcelona said in an event dedicated to feminisms that took place this Thursday afternoon in Plaça del Diamant in the Gràcia district, her first weekday public event in the campaign, in which so far she has limited herself to holding press conferences during the week. About four hundred people turned out, according to the organization.
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Preceded by a colloquium which featured: Laura Pérez, city councillor for Feminismes - who is not repeating on the BComú list; Clara Serra, feminist philosopher and former Podemos deputy in the Assembly of Madrid; and Jean Wyllys, political scientist, moderated by LGBTI activist David Jiménez and with a short address given by Jess González, En Comú Podem deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia and number 6 on the BComú candidate list, Colau expressed her "pride" in "the feminist organization called Barcelona en Comú" and claimed her role as "the first feminist woman mayor of this city", as well as remembering the tradition of the feminist struggle in Barcelona.
The candidate also defended feminist and LGTBI activism and recalled names such as Ocaña, Nazario, Empar Pineda and the murdered Sonia Rescalvo and defended that her party has "a city model" unlike her rivals. She also stated that when there is "progress for feminist groups, or for migrants, those who are privileged react". That's why she pointed out that in the face of the organization of the extreme right, here "we are filling the square to say that Barcelona is not afraid and does not plan to take a single step back", and in allusion to the fascist demonstration of La Bonanova, she pointed out that "the extreme right from all over Spain can now come to insult us, let them know that we are not afraid, that they motivate and reactivate us and that we are proud of anti-racist Barcelona".
"There is no feminism without trans women"
Likewise, Colau affirmed that "there is no feminism without trans women" and gave special thanks to the work of councillor Laura Pérez, who has "paved the way" with a feminist transformation of the city, noting that her work in the feminist area has not been that of a "symbolic councillor", but rather she has "got down in the mud to revise services and facilities to ensure that each and every one of them has protocols and budgets with a feminist perspective". This is her city model.