In an interview published by the newspaper Regió 7, Mas stressed that although the name CDC should not be recovered, the nationalist project that governed the Generalitat for nearly thirty years under Jordi Pujol and himself needs to be modernized. This reflection comes ten years after the dissolution of the party and the creation of the PDeCAT.
“"Now, the challenge is that what Convergència represented, updated and without being named the same, regains all the strength it once had. Disaggregating has a very high price, and grouping has great merit and great potential."
Mas insisted that the goal is to fill a void for all those people in the "broad center" who are uncomfortable "neither with the strict right nor with such illiberal left-wing positions." He acknowledged that Junts has attempted this, but indicated that "it lacks a little to achieve it," suggesting that the key to growth is for people to group under the same umbrella at the local level.
Regarding Carles Puigdemont, Mas defended that he should have a place in this space, as he is the "main reference of the project" and all decisions depend on him. However, he recalled that leaders must know how to step aside, citing his own successions to Pujol and himself: "President Puigdemont will have to decide, when he believes, when the time comes, whether there is a succession or not."
