He said that in the meeting with Fernández They spoke about the “international context, which is unstable and strongly polarized, and the need to recover those ties between Europe and Latin America”. “We need a world with less hate speech, strengthen democracy and work for peace”he remarked.
The president was accompanied during the meeting by the presidential spokesman, Gabriela Cerruti; the health minister, Carla Vizzotti; and the climate change secretary, Cecilia Nicoliniwhile Colau attended with the Argentines Gerardo Pisarello, former deputy mayor and current deputy for Barcelona; and candela lopezformer mayor of Castelldefels and coordinator of the Catalunya en Comú party.
Ada Colau snatched the mayor’s office from the Popular Party.
Ada Colau, the first female mayor in the history of that Catalan city, also serves as president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), as special envoy for the relationship of cities with the United Nations of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and as European Vice President of the C40 Steering Committeethe world’s leading network of cities working to tackle the climate crisis.
With a long history in social militancy and the defense of human rights, in 2009 it promoted the creation of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH)a space from which he struggled for those who were being evicted from their homes in the midst of the international financial crisis. In 2014 he founded Guanyem Barcelonawhich was later Barcelona in Commona citizen political platform through which in 2015 she won the municipal elections, and was re-elected in 2019.