Barcelona mayor Ada Colau to win local elections, says poll

Barcelona mayor and Barcelona en Comú candidate Ada Colau will win the next local elections held on May 28, according to a prediction of the Spanish government-funded survey CIS published on Thursday.

Colau would get between 11 and 13 seats, followed by Jaume Collboni's Socialist party with ten to 12, leaving former mayor Xavier Trias and frontrunner of TriasxBarcelona in a third position, taking between eight and nine seats.

Pro-independence Esquerra Republicana, under the leadership of Ernest Maragall, would get between six and seven seats in the Catalan capital's plenary.

Four years ago, in 2019, Maragall won the elections surpassing Colau in the number of ballots, as both got ten seats.

On the other hand, conservative People's Party candidate Daniel Sirera would get two seats, while liberal Ciudadanos would not reach the 5% threshold required to enter the plenary. In 2019, they got six seats.