Girona is already facing the race towards the municipal elections scheduled for a year from now, with a good part of its main candidacies underway and with the still recent memory of the post-election deadlock of 2023. At that time, the PSC was once again the most voted list, but Sílvia Paneque did not achieve the mayoralty due to the agreement between Guanyem, Junts per Catalunya, and ERC.
The main tension of the next appointment stems from there. The party that won the last elections still has not clarified who will lead its ticket, while several rivals have already made their move to dispute a government that the socialists have not recovered since they lost it in 2011 to Carles Puigdemont.
Junts, ERC, and Guanyem are already outlining their candidacies for 2027
ERC has chosen the former mayor of Sant Julià de Ramis, Marc Puigtió, as its candidate under the Moviment Gironí banner. His designation comes after the challenge of internal elections that he had won by a single vote.
Junts per Catalunya has also already ordered its departure. The deputy mayor Gemma Geis has been endorsed to lead the list again, in a scenario where the post-convergent space seeks to regroup after losing the mayoralty three years ago.
That result was partly conditioned by the fragmentation of that political sphere. Ara Girona, a platform linked to the PDeCAT and led by former CiU member Carles Ribas, obtained 1,500 votes, and Ribas could now occupy the number two position on Geis's candidacy.
For his part, Lluc Salellas has confirmed that he will repeat as Guanyem's candidate for the third consecutive time. The current mayor's objective is to maintain the upward trend that his party registered in the last elections.
The PSC still has not resolved its ticket fifteen years after losing the mayoralty
In the PSC, on the other hand, the candidacy remains open. Sílvia Paneque appears as a possible option for a return, although within the party, the local first secretary Marc Lamuà and the deputy delegate Pere Parramon are also considered alternatives.
The lack of definition carries weight in a city where the socialists governed from the beginning of democracy with Joaquim Nadal and Anna Pagans. That cycle ended in the 2011 municipal elections, when Carles Puigdemont snatched the mayoralty from the PSC.
Since then, Girona has chained balance changes in the plenary and cross-party agreements between represented forces. The PP and Vox, who maintain a presence in the city council but have not yet taken any formal steps to designate their candidates, will also have to position themselves on that map.
The next municipal call will arrive in a year, taking as a reference the calendar set for May 25, 2026, the date on which the candidacies of Marc Puigtió for Moviment Gironí, Gemma Geis for Junts per Catalunya, and Lluc Salellas for Guanyem are already confirmed.