Having passed the halfway point of the mandate, few things happen at Barcelona City Council that don't also have a certain pre-election component. There's more than a year and a half until the elections, but the parties are already fine-tuning the machinery with one eye on the polls. Even more so if, like this Wednesday, they wake up to a poll on the table. The survey released by He Newspaper has been planned for the procession of authorities on the occasion of Mercè, a patron saint of Barcelona who, if she were entitled to vote in 2027, like many of her fellow citizens, probably still wouldn't know how to vote.