{"id":95583,"date":"2018-05-24T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=95583"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:52:40","slug":"what-is-barcelona-en-comu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-barcelona-en-comu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Barcelona En Com\u00fa?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since winning the 2015 municipal elections in Barcelona after seemingly coming out of nowhere, Barcelona en Com\u00fa<\/strong> has captured worldwide political attention. The party currently holds a majority 11 out of 41 of the seats in the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, including Barcelona mayor Ada Colau.<\/strong> The win overturned years of reign of groups such as the Socialists\u00b4 Party of Spain (PSC)<\/strong> in local government. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Barcelona en Com\u00fa<\/span> (shown in pink) makes up 11 of the 41 councillor seats in the Ayuntamiento. Photo via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

Barcelona en Com\u00fa is an entity in Barcelona that can be described as many things – initially called Guanyem Barcelona (let\u00b4s win Barcelona), it began as a democratic <\/span>citizen platform<\/b> in 2014 and carried out on a left-wing, citizen-focused agenda in the following months. 300,000 citizens signed its collectively-created manifesto, and the group began to campaign for the 2015 municipal election cycle with support from groups such as <\/span>Podemos, <\/b>a left-wing populist party,\u00a0<\/span>Proc\u00e9s<\/strong>\u00a0Constituent, <\/b>a pro-Catalan independence social movement, and<\/span> ICV-EUiA, <\/b>an left-wing electoral coalition made up by Initiative for Catalonia Greensand United and Alternative Lef<\/span>t<\/span>. The next year, the 10-month-old group had won the majority in the elections, technically catapulting it into the status of a political party. However, some members of the group emphasize the irregularity of this descriptor with Com\u00fa\u00b4s main goal: to unite a variety of citizens regarding a multitude of social issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to read more about prevalent political parties in Catalonia<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

The main face of the party is <\/span>Ada Colau<\/b>, who became the first female mayor, or <\/span>alcadessa, <\/span><\/i>in the city\u00b4s history in 2015. Colau has been rooted in local activism for years, especially in regards to evictions and housing problems in the city, and helped to found Barcelona en Com\u00fa on a platform of local activism and citizen advocacy. Despite the election win, there was initial hesitancy within Com\u00fa about appointing one representative of a collective citizens\u00b4 platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Com\u00fa specifies <\/span>four main principles<\/span><\/a> for \u00a8Winning back Barcelona\u00a8, which describes the goal of transferring power back to citizens rather than just institutions in power. They are as follows: Guaranteeing basic human rights and dignity for all people, boosting an economy of social and environmental justice, democratizing institutions for people and power for people to decide on the city they want, and taking on an ethical commitment to the citizenry. <\/span><\/p>\n

Com\u00fa has established both neighborhood and district groups in Barcelona that address the needs of each area, similarly to the district committees within the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Since winning the 2015 municipal elections in Barcelona after seemingly coming out of nowhere, Barcelona en Com\u00fa has captured worldwide political attention. The party currently holds a majority 11 out of 41 of the seats in the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, including Barcelona mayor Ada Colau. The win overturned years of reign of groups such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":95584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4599],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95589,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95583\/revisions\/95589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}