the president of Together for Catalonia at the Barcelona City Council, Elsa Artadi, mayor of the party confirmed in the primaries held last February, announced this Thursday to her closest circle that has decided to give up running for municipal elections to be held in May 2023, according to El Nacional and TV3.
Junts has announced an appearance by the councillor, which will take place tomorrow in the town hall. Politics, according to the cited media, could be considering abandoning politics.
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Vice-president of the party and deputy in the Parliament, his resignation is due to personal reasons, and it arrives shortly after he redoubled his commitment to continue in the city council. Artadi won the primaries to be mayor of Junts without any opponent presenting himself.
The result of 2019
Less than a month ago, Artadi announced that he was no longer a spokesperson for Junts per Catalunya to focus on municipal life. The president of the post-convergent group had been assuming since the beginning of the mandate that she would not leave the consistory, a statement that she had to defend with some vehemence because it was assumed that she would not finish the mandate when the list that she led in 2019 only achieved five councilors, half of those obtained by Xavier Trias in 2015, when he lost the mayoralty at the hands of Ada Colau,