Ada Colau wants to follow the line of veto to cruise ships that the Balearic Islands has recently launched and that does not allow the port of Palma to receive more than three cruise ships a day. The mayor of Barcelona has advanced this Friday that she will propose to both the Generalitat and the central government to limit the number of these large pleasure boats that moor in the Catalan capital to try to reduce the pollution they generate.
“Cruise ships generate pollution and the unlimited cruise ship model that has existed until now is not sustainable and, therefore, must be regulated”, defended the mayor in an interview on Ràdio 4 and La 2 in which she made it clear that will convey his proposal »with a serene debate and data«.
In addition, Colau has warned that the problem is not only pollution, but sustainability in the city, since “there are thousands of people who arrive and most of them stay for a few hours and are highly concentrated in the downtown area and suddenly generate feeling of collapse. “The data is worrying,” she has settled.
The mayor has also acknowledged that she has not yet transferred the proposal to the president of the Port of Barcelona, Damià Calvet, but that she plans to do so. The municipal government has long had a discourse against cruise ships.
On the other hand, Colau has referred to her recent announcement of intending to repeat as mayor in Barcelona and, although she has left the door open for things to happen that make her rethink her future again, she has assured that “I will not eternalize myself in institutional politics.
As to whether she is considering being head of the opposition if she cannot be mayor, she has said that she is considering being mayor because she is running for election “with the desire to win them and gain more support” and trusts that the people who until now they had doubts about their project now they will vote for it. She has defended the leftist pacts and has assured that she would not make “any agreement, direct or indirect, with Vox”, of which she hopes they will not get representation in the Barcelona City Council.
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