Trias: “Rosell was generous in not showing up and I thank him”

The mayor for the city of Barcelona Xavier Trias reviewed the decision of Sandro Rosell did not participate in the election. In a statement on ‘El Món a RAC1’, on the same program that the news broke a few minutes before, Triassic He pointed out that “we have been talking for several days, we have had meetings and meetings, I even have a friendly relationship with him and I think he has decided to do an exercise luckily in which I am very grateful because he agreed. not to appear. We fight for the same space, we have strategies that in many cases are similar and we understood that this is something that we can only hurt each other and he did this decision for which I am very grateful. it was not easy because he was very convinced and had a team that worked intensively and the truth is that I sincerely thank you for this step, which I think is done in appreciation of the city, because we agree that the city is not going as it should and there must be change, and this change if we kill things that h it won’t work, for me it’s a good solution. I even said that one of the conditions I raised was that I would not go out if Sandro appeared, finally we agreed, he was the one who did not show up and I am very grateful to him for this attitude ”.

Trias, asked about how Rosell has taken it, added that “I think it’s good because he does it generously, we hugged and he told me ‘I’ll watch you, eh, because it consists of doing things well done’. And he’s right, there’s also my team of very good people and we will try to ensure that the things that he raised about the city, economic activity, security, cleaning, all these things that he asked me to do, because they are also in our program, I think he will be happy with how we do it, and we will ask him for advice and try to find connections and cooperation with the people you work with him”.

On whether the former president of Barça will join the list of Trias, he said “no, from the first day he told me that he did not have that interest, that if he retires he will retire. He has a strategy that he will retire but in a vigilant way, because what he wants is for us to do things well done and I guarantee it, the fact that I explain it is very clear. He said, ‘I’m leaving because you ask me to, it’s your request and when you have explained it, I will also explain it'”.

In the end, he commented in relation to the possible presence of people from Rosell’s team on the Trias list or Sandro himself at some campaign event that “depends on him and his people, we haven’t discussed whether he will go or no, I would I want to do something. But we haven’t discussed it and it depends on his mood”.