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.

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.