Barcelona mayor who severed ties with Tel Aviv loses election
She was defeated by Xavier Trias, the right-wing candidate from the Junts party, a former mayor who Colau had previously unseated in 2015.
THE RECENT unilateral act by Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau to suspend her city’s twinning agreement with Tel Aviv flies in the face of the need to bring people together, says the writer. (photo credit: ALBERT GEA/ REUTERS)
