Girona is the only Catalan provincial capital with a pro-independence government, headed by Lluc Salellas (Girona, 1984), who remains uncertain about whether he will run again for mayor in next year's elections. In any case, he is committed to maintaining the pro-independence unity formula, which includes the CUP (within Guanyem Girona), Junts, and ERC, and even to expanding it.

The week begins with a hangover from the previous one, which already speaks volumes about the level of slowdown or general gridlock that Catalan politics has reached, with no budgets in sight in either Catalonia or Spain, and none of the major agreements reached by Junts and Esquerra with the Socialists have been finalized.

The Catalan Alliance currently doesn't even have an official candidate for the municipal elections in Girona, but its specter has been haunting the plenary session for weeks, causing friction within the pro-independence coalition governing the city. The marriage of convenience between Guanyem (the formation that integrates the CUP) and Junts, which two years ago served to oust, also with the help of ERC, the victory of Silvia Paneque's PSC in the last municipal elections, has been shaken by the emergence ofa tougher speech of the regional council member Gemma Geis on matters of security and also immigration.

A surprising and unprecedented portrait of King Felipe VI has presided over the plenary hall of Girona City Hall since Monday. It is a photograph of the monarch created from a combination of images from the October 1 referendum in the city, which, when placed side by side, draw the silhouette of the Bourbon.

Girona faces the mid-term of a tripartite government, unprecedented in its history, formed by Guanyem, Junts, and Esquerra (Republican Left), with a particularly hot topic on the table: a change in the waste collection model. The daily recycling schedule, with the introduction of so-called smart containers, is unanimously considered the worst of Mayor Lluc Salellas's first two years in office, according to the eight sector representatives interviewed by ARA.

Far from a dull, drab city, Girona has gained life and dynamism over the years, understanding itself as a space for shared living, learning, and wealth generation in the broadest sense of the term. We've grown from 60,000 to 110,000 inhabitants in just over 40 years, which brings with it both challenges and opportunities. From the city government, we've faced this future by working with three very clear objectives: 1) that all policy focuses on improving people's lives; 2) that Girona preserves its identity; and 3) that the future city is increasingly connected to its natural environment and its urban area.

The Sareb is one of Girona's main urban developers, with more than 250 homes and several building plots spread throughout the city. Of these, however, dozens are empty, unavailable for rent, locked and locked awaiting better market conditions. No one lives there, except for a few vulnerable families without a regular lease.

The political scientist, journalist, and current mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas (Girona, 1984), started working at a very young age, helping out at his father's law firm when his secretary was on vacation. But his first salary came from working in the entertainment industry around the age of 16. He used the money to pay for his first outings with his friends. "When I was studying in Barcelona, ​​I used that money for extra things, because it's true that they helped me with the most ordinary things at home," explains Salellas in an interview with theCompanies, made before the perinatal loss of her son Ovidi.

In front of the current political context of disenchantment and decline of the independence movement, municipalism is joining forces to try to refloat the path of national sovereignty. The city councils of Girona, Manresa, and Vic, together with the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), are calling on all elected officials from the country's local councils to participate in the first National Meeting of Elected Officials of Catalonia on May 31st in the Girona capital: a day of debate and reflection that aims to establish...