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Figueres
Comarca: Alt Empordà
Població: 50.879
Població estrangera: 29,3%
Renda neta personal: 12.566 €
Vot a Aliança Catalana (2024): 10,1%
Figueres
Comarca: Alt Empordà
Població: 50.879
Població estrangera: 29,3%
Renda neta personal: 12.566 €
Vot a Aliança Catalana (2024): 10,1%
Figueres
Comarca: Alt Empordà
Població: 50.879
Població estrangera: 29,3%
Renda neta personal: 12.566 €
Vot a Aliança Catalana (2024): 10,1%
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If anyone wants to find a house to rent in Figueres, they're having a hard time. The reader can check this firsthand: if they go to a real estate portal like Idealista, they'll find only two apartments for rent in the entire city and at a high price: 1,100 euros a month for a villa in the center or 1,800 in the Oliva Gran neighborhood. It's not because it's a luxury city, but because there's simply no supply. This is just one example of the challenges that the capital of Alt Empordà has been facing for a long time, along with population growth, the perception of insecurity, the saturation of public services, or the loss of purchasing power. A cocktail that in the last parliamentary elections translated like this: the far-right garnered up to 21.92% of the votes. Vox was the third force, with 11.87%, and Aliança was fourth with 10.05%, in elections that Junts won (25.80%), followed by the PSC (23.18%). The result differs from the 2023 municipal elections, when Jordi Masquef (Junts) achieved an absolute majority with a leadership that generates many followers in the municipality – he received 49.81% of the votes – against detractors who accuse him of adopting the far-right agenda.
L'ARA spent a day in the city, where it was able to confirm that the municipality is a first-class cultural attraction due to the Dalí Museum and the painter's birthplace – recently inaugurated – and that at the same time it is experiencing population growth that is questioning public services.
"It's a success that no one has been hurt"
The historic center is a reflection of the changes the city has undergone: the Dalí Museum stands majestically at the end of the Castell climb (brand new), while on an adjacent street, migrant people queue at the DNI and passport office. Just this March 30, the City Council announced that the city had surpassed 50,000 inhabitants for the first time, a growth that has occurred, according to municipal register data. This means a step forward in the number of councilors and more competences, a change in category. It has grown basically due to immigration. Compared to the average number of migrants in Catalonia, which is 18.74%, Figueres reaches almost double: up to 30.1% is foreign population. A third of these come from Morocco, as the border situation with France causes many people of this origin to settle there.
This population increase also poses challenges, such as complexity in classrooms. A school teacher, who prefers not to identify herself, exemplifies this: "At the end of the day, we see it as a success that no one has been hurt [...]. This cannot be our goal." This teacher, who works on the front lines, says this due to the heterogeneity she has in her class: not only because of migration but also because of children with special educational needs, ranging from a lack of economic resources to attention or relationship problems. Added to this is the live enrollment, that is, children who arrive mid-course. Since September, 23 more secondary students and 38 primary students have arrived. Figueres has 8,117 students in total.
Local trade suffers from Zara's departure
The city's other challenge is economic dynamism. As in all medium-sized cities, local commerce is suffering and it's palpable when walking through the center of the capital of Alt Empordà. Empty premises and some graffiti that the City Council is rehabilitating by decorating them with literary phrases. Jordi Córdoba, promoter of the Centre Empresarial i Bressol de l'Alt Empordà (CEBA), a space for supporting entrepreneurs, notes a degradation of the historic center, mainly due to the departure of Zara. He points out that the fact that this multinational company settled in the commercial center of La Jonquera did a lot of damage to local commerce. "People bring more people," he summarizes. Therefore, from the association, beyond holding talks to advise companies and self-employed individuals – the last one on how to make your business viable with Elisabet Bach – they also try to speak up when they learn that a premises is being transferred to prevent it from remaining empty. Frederic Carbó, president of Comerç Figueres, asks the City Council to move towards a pedestrian center, with parking lots around it to make it accessible. "We don't see any other way to fight against shopping centers," he says.
The City Council's plan
Masquef, who is a most classic-style mayor –while walking down the Rambla he receives congratulations, complaints, and suggestions from neighbors–, points out that population cannot grow indefinitely. He notes an increase in the pressure on public services and also a loss of per capita income for the Figueres population. The phenomenon that has occurred is as follows: while Figueres has attracted people with precarious jobs working in industrial estates around the municipality, it has simultaneously lost native population from the city, especially those who lived in the historic center, who have moved to smaller towns in the well-connected surrounding area. In other words, the city's physiognomy has changed. The figures speak for themselves: if net per capita income in Catalonia is 17,262 euros, in Figueres it drops to 12,566 euros.
In a conversation with ARA, the mayor assures that to combat this situation they have presented an affordable housing plan that foresees the launch of 1,000 homes between now and 2030, in addition to streamlining licenses and introducing tax incentives. At the same time, the PSC government in the Generalitat, with whom Masquef, despite being from Junts, maintains fluid communication, has included the City Council's project to renovate the west of the city in the neighborhood plan (24.8 million euros). The City Council has also reached an agreement with the State to bury the tracks of the conventional train station –a project that the PSC had also promoted when it was in government– and is working for Figueres to become a university city to retain young talent.
Alfons Martínez, spokesperson for the socialists in the Figueres City Council –the future candidate for the elections will be Javi Martín–, regrets in any case that the City Council is reacting late. In his opinion, a complete overhaul of the historic center is needed, the "degradation" of the streets must be avoided, and above all, poverty must be combated, which he believes is the true breeding ground for the growth of the far-right. In this regard, he accuses Masquef of having fueled the perception of insecurity, which he has combated with more police presence in visible places, but has left other areas without personnel where it is already being noticed. "He is implementing policies so that votes do not go to the right," says Martínez.
Does Aliança have a chance in the municipal elections? They have just chosen a candidate, even though they first tried to lure the same Masquef, as explained by ARA.as explained by ARA. The Junts candidate has a tough stance on immigration, but distances himself from Sílvia Orriols' "Islamophobic" discourse. "People who come to commit crimes, out, but you can't generalize – he says –. Citizens value common sense and good judgment." In fact, his recipe is to ignore AC. So far it has worked for him and he will put it to the test again in 2027.
