The spokesperson for the commons and deputy for Sumar in Congress, Gerardo Pisarello, has prevailed over comedian Bob Pop, linked to the most critical wing and whose proposal was presented as "disruptive". Pisarello, who had the backing of the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has obtained 68.8% of the votes from the 1,500 militants who participated in the internal elections of the commons in Barcelona. Bob Pop has secured 27% of the votes. These results are provisional and will be ratified next Monday.
The election of Pisarello also entails that of Carol Reció, a Barcelona councilwoman, with whom he ran in an electoral 'tandem' —the commons established in their statutes that the candidacy must be composed of a male and a female candidate—. The executive, moreover, has valued "very positively" the "internal and external" mobilization that the call has generated.
Pisarello and Reció will now have to choose the numbers three, four, and five on the list; they will value their victory this Monday, when the results are official. The process has confirmed what the polls indicated. That is, that the militants were leaning towards the continuity of Pisarello, who is betting on a "broad front" of the left, versus Bop Pop, who is in favor of returning to the party's core principles.
