Barcelona’s Junts municipal group president, Jordi Martí Galbis, has said he will run for mayor in the city’s 2027 municipal elections. He is the first Junts leader to announce a candidacy for the party’s primary process.
Martí Galbis, 62, says he is the only pre-candidate with experience in both government and opposition. He has served on Barcelona City Council, which governs the city’s 1.6 million residents.
He also has the public backing of former Barcelona mayor Xavier Trias. Junts is holding primaries to choose its candidate for 2027, with four names in the race: Martí Galbis, Pilar, Glòria Freixa and Jaume Alonso Cuevillas. It is the highest number of hopefuls since the party was formed.
Martí Galbis says his campaign is built around Barcelona and the work he has done during the current council term. He says the party’s focus is on residents, neighbourhoods, organisations and businesses, and that this gives him an edge over the other pre-candidates.
He has also criticised the current PSC administration under Mayor Jaume Collboni, saying the main problems in Barcelona have not changed since the days of Ada Colau. Martí Galbis wants to win over voters who backed Trias in 2023, when Trias won 150,000 votes across the city’s ten districts. He says he is not standing for a short-term role and would keep going if Junts did not end up governing.
Martí Galbis says Junts is a centrist party with room to work with both the centre-left and the centre-right, but he rules out what he calls unnatural pacts. He also says the other pre-candidates could join his team if he wins the primary. For more local political coverage, see our Community and Sport pages.
