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The city’s first female mayor is reviled by the elites and pro-car lobby, but embraced by others for her social policiesAs Ada Colau tries to win a third and final term as mayor of Barcelona on Sunday, there is one thing her opponents have in common: that she is personally to blame for all the city’s ills, from bag snatching to traffic jams.The attacks on her are so insistent and so personalised that her campaign has even produced a T-shirt with the ironic slogan: La culpa de todo la tiene Ada Colau (It’s all Ada Colau’s fault). Continue reading...