Question of priorities. This is how forceful Deputy Mayor Laia Bonet was when asked this Tuesday by the Vox municipal group about the state of the Columbus monument, at the lower part of the Rambla. The far-right bench came to the Mobility and Urban Planning commission with a request for the City Council to “immediately” tidy up the statue dedicated to the navigator. But no. There is a reform project that costs 6.3 million euros, the PSC councilor reported, but it is not planned to be undertaken in this term.
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Not because the socialists have anything against the monument, but because it was neither scheduled nor is it scheduled in the investment plan for the current term. That is, from May 2027, after the municipal elections, it will be seen. Liberto Senderos (Vox) has considered the state of the statue “regrettable” and has censured the PSC for dedicating so much effort to the new Rambla and postponing the Columbus reform project.
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Bonet has admitted that the government has had the executive project since the beginning of this year and there she considers the work on the memorial concluded for now: “We have done the work we committed to with the drafting of the project. Governing means prioritizing and this action is not planned in the investment plan of this term, so we leave everything ready to be able to execute it in the next one.”
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