Barcelona City Council approves yellow ribbon display: Barcelona City Council has once again hung the yellow ribbon in solidarity with imprisoned pro-independence leaders, something that BComú, ERC and JxCat support, although there has not been a formal vote because the municipal groups have positioned themselves in a meeting prior to the constitution of the spokesperson's meeting.

This has been said in statements to the media by Councilwoman Janet Sanz, and the issue has been addressed in this meeting convened to address issues of routine start of the mandate, which has been raised to hang the tie on the basis of a previous agreement of the board of spokespersons in the last mandate.

A few minutes after Sanz's announcement, at around 3:00 p.m., two workers came out onto the balcony of the Town Hall that overlooks Plaza Sant Jaume and displayed a banner with the yellow ribbon.

Barcelona City Council approves yellow ribbon display

Thus, the tie returns to the facade of the consistory, after the Government of Colau withdrew it in March to comply with an order of the Electoral Board of the Zone in the face of the general elections that were held on April 28 --- when a banner was also dropped in support of Open Arms--.

While the meeting was being held, the national leadership of Cs announced the break with the platform led by Manuel Valls, who has been left without representation at the meeting because the two councilors who have come are from the party --Paco Sierra and Mariluz Guilarte- -, and both have left without making statements to the media.

MORE NEWS: Corbacho also leaves Valls and joins the group of Cs in Barcelona

Former Socialist Minister Celestino Corbacho leaves the municipal group led by Manuel Valls at Barcelona City Council to join Cs, who on Monday broke with the former French prime minister for having voted in favor of the re-election of Ada Colau as mayor.

This means that the initial group of Barcelona film Canvi, which won six councilors on 26M, will be divided as follows: under the umbrella of the platform will be, for now, Manuel Valls and Eva Parera, while the remaining four councilors-Corbacho as an independent and three with an orange card- they will be grouped in another group under the acronym of Ciudadanos.

According to Citizen sources, before taking the decision, the former socialist minister met Tuesday morning with Valls and in the afternoon he contacted representatives of Cs to address his situation as an independent councilor of Barcelona. rupture of the candidate with the orange formation.