Of the six new provincial capitals in which the party has options to govern from June 17, four of them are in Catalonia. The concessions of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to those convicted of the illegal independence referendum of 2017 have been assumed in this community as a mechanism of "deinflammation" of the conflict originated by the procés.
In Barcelona, the winner of the May 28 elections was the candidate of Junts, Xavier Trias, with 11 councilors, 10 short of an absolute majority. The Socialists will have to leave 17 consistories, among which is a square as symbolic for its acronym as Seville.