The former Interior and Justice minister of the Generalitat, Montserrat Tura, has said that she will present herself as a potential candidate to be mayor of Barcelona in the upcoming primaries in which the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) will chose its runners for the council elections to be held on May 22nd (read article in Castilian here, El Periodico). This means that Tura will be running against the current Barcelona mayor, Jordi Hereu, in the contest by the local federation of the PSC to select the Socialist candidate for the elections; the incumbent has made it clear he is keen to stand again and take his mandate into a third term. Hereu has a meeting planned tomorrow with former Generalitat president and first secretary of the PSC, José Montilla, to discuss the matter, and sources close to the mayor said that he expected Montilla to ask him to step down. However, Hereu insists that "I won't take a step back. I accept the challenge of the primaries. I want to be the PSC's mayoral candidate." Meanwhile, Tura will present her candidature this morning in the headquarters of the PSC in Barcelona. As José Montilla has refused to throw his weight behind either candidate, they will both be able to call themselves 'outsider' candidates, rather than one put in place by the party machinery, a description that in the past has seen positive results for various candidates in primaries organised by the PSC.