Ada Colau
Former mayor of Barcelona; Frente Amplio candidate for prime minister
Ada Colau gets an F
Score: 23 out of 100, the average of 4 measures. Graded on what Colau has said and done, because I count recorded votes only for the US Congress. Every line is below, with its source.
- FFree nationsMostly against liberty, 4 sources
- FFree marketsAgainst liberty, 3 sources
- AConscienceWith liberty, 1 source
- ?DefenseNot clear either way, 1 source
- FBordersAgainst liberty, 1 source
Colau, on the record
10 things Colau has said and done. Each one has its source, and each is marked with the same test I use for votes in Congress. A line that doesn't settle the question is marked as not clear and counts for nothing.
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Colau signed a twinning agreement with Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko in Barcelona and said the city would stand with Ukraine until the end of the occupation.
“We are here to say that we will stand with Ukraine until the end of this unjust occupation.”
In Catalan:
Estem aquí per dir que estarem amb Ucraïna fins al final d'aquesta ocupació injusta.
- By the test I use for votes
- With liberty
Backing Ukraine against Russia's invasion counts as with liberty.
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As mayor, Colau suspended Barcelona's twinning with Tel Aviv and all relations between the city and the State of Israel, telling Benjamin Netanyahu so in a letter.
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Cutting ties with Israel counts as against liberty.
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Announcing that she would sail with the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, Colau wrote that ending the genocide in Gaza is everyone's duty.
“putting an end to the genocide in Gaza is everyone's duty”
In Spanish:
poner fin al genocidio en Gaza es un deber de todos
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Calling Israel's war genocide counts as against liberty.
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Colau filed a complaint at Spain's National Court against the State of Israel over her detention after the Gaza flotilla was intercepted, for crimes against humanity, torture and illegal detention.
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Bringing legal cases against Israel counts as against liberty.
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Colau asked her party, the Comuns, to leave the national coalition government unless it acted against investment funds that own housing.
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Demanding state action against private owners in the housing market counts as against liberty.
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Colau called for a broad political alliance to stop speculators and landlords who live off rents.
“Let us stop the speculators, the rentiers and the political arm that protects them with a very great political alliance”
In Spanish:
Detengamos a los especuladores, a los rentistas y al brazo político que los protege con una grandísima alianza política
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Campaigning against landlords and the housing market in favour of more state control counts as against liberty.
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Opening the Frente Amplio campaign, Colau said that as mayor of Barcelona the city council expropriated more than 1,600 homes.
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Expropriating private property counts as against liberty.
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As mayor, Colau removed the Mercè festival mass from the city's official programme, so that no council member attended it in an official capacity.
- By the test I use for votes
- With liberty
Separating the city government from religious ceremonies counts as with liberty.
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At Barcelona's education fair, Colau told two army officers at the armed forces stand that the city council would prefer no military presence at the fair.
“You already know that we, as a city council, would prefer there to be no military presence at the fair, but simply because we believe the spaces should be kept separate”
In Spanish:
Ya sabéis que nosotros, como ayuntamiento, preferimos que no haya presencia militar en el salón, pero simplemente porque creemos que hay que separar los espacios
- By the test I use for votes
- Not clear either way
Keeping the army away from a schools fair says nothing about funding or equipping the armed forces, so it does not settle this measure.
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In the city's Mercè festival speech, Colau gave her full support to the citizens' petition for a mass regularisation of migrants without papers.
“In this sense, we give full support to the signature drive for the Regularisation Now popular legislative initiative so that these neighbours can live as equals”
In Catalan:
En aquest sentit, donem ple suport a la iniciativa de recollida de signatures per la ILP Regularització Ja perquè aquests veïns i veïnes puguin viure en situació d'igualtat
- By the test I use for votes
- Against liberty
Supporting mass regularisation counts as against liberty.
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