‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term

‘There are politicians who constantly question my hair, my clothes, my ability, my lack of culture’: mayor Ada Colau, centre, in Barcelona. Photograph: David Zorrakino/Europa Press/Getty

As 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).