"We’ve led a progressive government, with a social justice and sustainability project, with successful economic results and through dialogue and consensus and with stability. This is what Barcelona needs"

"Thanks to all the women doing science with every ambition and who are willing to become role models for girls, women of the future, who will be pursuing science for all our sakes."

"Barcelona is strengthening its economic commitment to innovation, technology and knowledge, the best possible economic driver for making the future the present."

"We need to say, loud and clear, that there can be no democracy without anti-fascism. This is understood by the world’s most consolidated democracies, which are clear about whom they should thank for their democratic heritage and whom they should not accept as part of their institutions."

"We want to be, and can be, one of the cities that lead the way in changing the model of the industrialised and globalised food system that is currently harming people and the planet."

My message for 25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

"So I am very excited to participate in this movement of unstoppable cities that have decided to put people at their centre and where no pressure or lobby can make us change our minds. Because city residents are clear about it and so are we. "

"Today we have 92 women – almost 40% of the total – joining the Guàrdia Urbana city police. We are slowly putting right a historical injustice and ensuring that our local police force reflects our society, which is plural and diverse"

Once again we are going to show that Barcelona is strong and full of confidence in itself, that it is more alive and more active than ever, and that its heart, made up of all the city’s residents, is beating enthusiastically in all its neighbourhoods.