Local party reflects on La Llagosta gains
- Jordi Alonso used the 22 May anniversary to revisit ICV-EUiA’s 2011 municipal breakthrough in La Llagosta and the governing deal that returned the mayor’s office. - Alonso called the result the coalition’s best since the first PSUC-led term; local records say Alberto López became mayor 28 years after that earlier era. - The piece matters as a memory-of-power story — how a small left coalition turned vote gains into control.
Municipal politics is the kind of story that can look tiny from far away and huge if you actually live there. That is what Jordi Alonso is getting at in his post about La Llagosta. He is not announcing a new election result. He is looking back at May 22, 2011, and arguing that the result still meant something real for the town’s political memory. The core point is simple — ICV-EUiA did not just improve its numbers, it helped flip who governed. ### What is the actual event here? The post marks the second anniversary of the 2011 municipal election in La Llagosta. Alonso writes that ICV-EUiA achieved “historic” results in that vote and that, days later, a governing agreement let the coalition recover the mayor’s office after 28 years. That anniversary framing matters because this is less a campaign message than a retrospective about what changed and why party members still talk about it. ### Who is Jordi Alonso in this story? He was not just a commentator watching from the outside. Alonso’s own biography on the same blog says he had been a councillor in La Llagosta since 2007 and served as first deputy mayor and spokesperson for the ICV-EUiA municipal group. So when he writes about the 2011 result, he is writing as someone who was part of the coalition’s local leadership and part of the government that followed. (jordialonso.blogspot.com) ### What did ICV-EUiA say it achieved? Alonso’s language is very specific. He says the 2011 result was the best for ICV-EUiA in La Llagosta since the first legislature with the PSUC, the old Catalan communist party that sits in the background of a lot of local left politics. That is the historical benchmark he wants readers to hear — not just “we did well,” but “we reached a level not seen since an earlier left-wing era in town government.” (jordialonso.blogspot.com) ### So did they actually win the town? Not in the simple “most votes equals mayor” sense. The important move came after the election, when coalition-building decided the government. A municipal bulletin from La Llagosta says Alberto López of ICV-EUiA became the new mayor, and Alonso said at the time that the council session reflected the desire for change expressed by voters on May 22. Another local report from that period also notes that ICV-EUiA obtained the mayoralty even without being the most-voted force. (jordialonso.blogspot.com) Basically, this was a classic town-hall power shift built through post-election arithmetic. ### Why does the “28 years” detail matter? Because that is the emotional hinge of the whole piece. In local politics, a number like 28 years is not trivia — it is a way of saying an entire generation had passed since the party last held that office. Alonso uses that span to turn an election result into a story about return, continuity, and unfinished history on the local left. It is memory as strategy. (llagosta.cat) ### Where does PSUC fit in? PSUC is the older reference point that gives ICV-EUiA’s claim its weight. Without that context, “historic result” sounds like routine party boasting. With it, the argument becomes clearer: the coalition sees itself as reconnecting with a deeper left tradition in La Llagosta, not inventing something from scratch. That is why Alonso measures 2011 against the first PSUC legislature rather than against the immediately previous election. (jordialonso.blogspot.com) ### Why write this two years later? Because anniversaries let parties lock in a version of events before memory gets fuzzy. Alonso is trying to preserve a lesson — that local gains can matter if they are translated into governing deals, and that a party’s best result is not just a percentage on election night but the ability to shape the town afterward. In a place like La Llagosta, that is the whole game. (jordialonso.blogspot.com) ### Bottom line This is a small-town retrospective, but the mechanics are universal. A left coalition improved its standing, used a post-election agreement to take the mayor’s office, and later framed that moment as a historic return rather than a one-off upset. That is why Alonso’s post still reads like more than nostalgia — it is an argument about how local power is won and remembered. (jordialonso.blogspot.com)
