Communists in unnatural pact - SHOCK!

Antoni Morral - Communist traitorRegular readers may remember my miserably poor prediction that ICV-EUIA incumbent Antoni Morral would stay on as mayor in my town, Cerdanyola del Vallès. In the end, the PSC won more council seats and I was left wiping egg from my slightly sunburned face.

But hold on! It wasn't over yet! Turns out that even though one party won a majority of the votes and seats, another bloc can always try to form a coalition to wrestle the mayorship away from them. Just like in the Generalitat elections. Apparently, Antoni Morral felt that he deserved another term and so went looking for some coalition partners.

Now, as a member of ICV-EUIA (a sort of mixture of communists and greens), the natural partners would be the PSC. But they already had more seats so of course, they'd never pact to keep Morral as mayor.

What about last time? Who did we pact with then?

ERC had two seats and PAS (hippy party) had one!

Sweet! How did they do this year?

Oh, neither got any seats.

So who has got the seats? C's?

No, of course not.

Well, there's always…

Nah, you shouldn't even consider it

But they've got seats. They've got votes. We can pact with them.

But don't you think our electors will be a bit pissed off if we pact with CiU and PP?

Who cares what the plebs think?*

Yeah, I am actually pretty pissed off that the party I voted for has gone into coalition with two parties I'd never even consider voting for. I know local politics is more about pragmatism and Getting Things Done than national government but still… si us plau!

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*I imagine this is how Antoni's conversation with his party, or mum or whoever, sounded.

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June 20, 2007 | Filed Under Catalonia, PP, Politics 

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One Response to “Communists in unnatural pact - SHOCK!”

  1. Johnny Tastavins on June 23rd, 2007 12:55 am

    Yeah, this is the main reason because I stoped voting last year. All politicians are becoming far far away from us.

    You vote for one choice, and they use your vote for making just the oposite you would like to do.

    Come with me, we were the winners in the Estatut referendum, and were close to win again in Local polls.

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