The mayors from Junts in Girona are joining forces to toughen security a year and a half before the municipal elections.

GironaTogether continues to focus on the issue of security. It is the main battleground for the mayors and councilors of Carles Puigdemont's party, who, a year and a half before the municipal elections, are concentrating their efforts on combating crime in their towns. This Monday morning, several local officials from the Girona region, including the deputy mayor of Girona, Gemma Geis, and the mayor of Figueres, Jordi Masquef, met to discuss insecurity and repeat offenses. "It's an issue that citizens are asking us to address. We need to speak objectively and without resorting to alarmism. The possibility of having your phone stolen or your purse snatched on the street creates a great sense of insecurity," explained Gemma Geis, in front of the new police station in the Girona neighborhood of Santa Eugenia.

Municipal representatives from Girona are asking the Catalan government for a "specific plan" to address repeat offenders in the region. A kind of Kampai Plan Applied to the reality of Girona. "In Figueres we have 16 repeat offenders who disrupt good neighborliness, with more than 250 open cases. We mayors take the pulse of the people and the police, who cannot understand certain behaviors under the Penal Code, which are discouraging," he argues. Jordi Masquef, one of the strongmen of Junts and mayor with an absolute majority in FigueresAnd he adds: "Where there's a will, there's a way. There are people who have turned this practice into their business." modus operandi and modus vivendi"The demands from Junts to the Interior Ministry come a month and a half after Minister Núria Parlon, following the inauguration of the new Santa Eugenia police station, acknowledged that the tough stance against repeat offenders in Barcelona was causing them to relocate to Girona and Central Catalonia. "They are demanding that support. Last week the data was presented in Barcelona, and here we have no information on how the comprehensive plan is being implemented," Geis complains. Junts municipal officials are also calling for a greater presence of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), to relieve the workload of the municipal police forces and because, in small towns like Quart, without their own police force, the Mossos officers often only arrive once. To agree in Madrid on a toughening of the Penal Code

Beyond the Catalan government, the mayors from Junts are also targeting Madrid and urging Pedro Sánchez to pass a law to strengthen the Penal Code against repeat offenders, a bill already introduced in Congress by Junts but which the PSOE has postponed on several occasions. Regardless of the break announced by Míriam Nogueras, the mayors want to reach agreements with the Spanish government on this issue. In fact, this weekend, in an interview on the ARAMasquef even suggested they negotiate budgets.

With this latest appearance, Junts is once again reinforcing its concern on this issue, precisely at a time of electoral surge for the far-right Aliança Catalana. Gemma Geis, for example, has been speaking publicly about it for weeks, distancing herself within the tripartite governing coalition formed by Mayor Lluc Salellas of Guanyem and Esquerra on issues such as squatting and the control of the municipal register. However, for the moment, despite the proliferation of social media profiles denouncing the city's dirty and unsafe conditions, the overall assessment of the Feria festival has been positive, with no reports of significant incidents.