In this campaign, the Junts per Catalunya candidate has referred several times to the demographic challenge, due to the increase in the population and its aging. Carles Puigdemont has pointed out several times that no one foresaw a Catalonia with eight million inhabitants and has maintained several times that no one thought about what was coming and everything remained in the six million model. For this reason, the former Catalan president advocated this Sunday, in an event with the youth of his party, the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (JNC), for "thinking and preparing the Catalonia of the future", with a long-term view and thinking in a country of ten million citizens.
At the event, the JxCat candidate assured that his intention is to “raise Catalonia from the present.” “It could be left in our hands,” he warned. To achieve this, he has prescribed a president “who is not afraid of aesthetics and what people will say.” “Let him command and make decisions,” added the post-convergent leader, who believes that some of the decisions that should be made are uncomfortable.
“It is time to think about the next generations. Some decisions that have to be made are uncomfortable and not always popular, some without popular benefit and perhaps cost some support,” said the sovereigntist leader. “But thinking about the next generations, those decisions, those contributions, will be highly respected and appreciated. "They are the bricks in the wall of tomorrow's building and we must put them in now," Puigdemont continued, alluding to issues such as education, health and housing. “To prepare the Catalonia of the future, managing and governing is not enough” because, as he has said, they are “colossal challenges.” “How many apartments will we need in 20 years?” he asked.
In that sense, the Junts candidate has assured that in all the departments of the next Catalan executive if he is in charge there will be a long-term view.
At the rally, he also pointed out to the members of the JNC that “complex problems demand complex solutions.” “Everything cannot be resolved in a one and a half minute video or in a tweet,” added the former Catalan president, who pointed out that an example of a complex solution is independence. “Help us give a definitive push in the next legislature,” he concluded.
At the event, Puigdemont also pointed out in relation to problems such as housing that his parents' generation would have found it difficult to believe that it was more difficult to buy an apartment than to be able to travel around Europe and around the world. “They thought something else would be in danger,” he said. “What was taken for granted, a flat, we don't have and it is slipping through our hands. "On the other hand, we can go on vacation with flights for 50 euros," said Puigdemont, who stressed that it is about having a "life project" and "living in decent conditions" and being able to reconcile and not just go to work.
Likewise, the former president has also warned that “cultural globalization is threatening our languages and cultures.” “It also happens in independent nations and threatens creators in their own language and their ability to survive because there is no critical mass to consume,” he noted. “There is a setback in cultural creation in one's own language,” he has diagnosed.
