With the municipal elections of 2027 on the horizon, Alianza Catalana has been activating its machinery for months to find candidates, including a takeover bid for Junts officials and from the convergent space with the aim of incorporating them into their lists. But amidst meetings and calls left and right, there was an operation that was cooked up last year that aimed to take away the mayor of an entire county capital. As ARA has been able to learn, Alianza Catalana tried to sign the mayor of Figueres, Jordi Masquef, without success. An intermediary, Miquel, a grassroots militant of the far-right party in Empordà, got in touch with the Junts mayor, with whom they already knew each other. The mayor responded to his messages in November, stalled him, and finally rejected the offer, according to knowledgeable sources.

Together 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.

The mayor of Figueres, Jordi Masquef, a prominent figure in the Junts party at the municipal level, speaks with ARA to address the problems facing medium-sized cities in Catalonia and also to discuss national and state politics.

Step forward by relocate the train station from the center of Figueres, where commuter and medium-distance trains arrive, to the current location of the high-speed line, on the border with Vilafant. This Monday, the Department of Territory and the Ministry of Transport, together with the city councils of Figueres and Vilafant and Adif, signed the protocol formalizing the agreement for the new infrastructure, which was already agreed upon last February within the framework of the State-Generalitat Bilateral Infrastructure Commission. The project envisions unifying high-speed, commuter, and medium-distance services into a single intermodal station, thus allowing for the dismantling of the tracks that currently cross the city center. The signed protocol is the preliminary step to formalizing the financing agreement and the tendering of the works, scheduled for this fall, with a total investment of over €150 million.

The oversight of the census has become one of the main armed forces of the city councils that advocate a tougher and more radical approach against immigration. Ripoll is a paradigmatic example, under the far-right government of Silvia Orriols, which has promoted very strict measures to restrict access to registration for newly arrived residents, accusing them of fraudulently seeking to access basic services. But this is not the only case on the agenda. In 2024, this City Council deregistered up to 804 people. deregistration This was carried out through an intensive control campaign by the city council's "verification agents," conducting door-to-door visits to check the addresses of all those who, according to the municipal government, showed signs of fraud. This massive operation to remove people from the census, although presented by the council as a very positive initiative to regulate the residence and access to services of all city residents, has generated much criticism among the third sector.