Prohens raises the tone against the regularization of immigrants and accuses the PSOE of promoting the "call effect"

PalmaThe PP and the PSIB continue to fight for the extraordinary regularization of immigrants approved by the Spanish government. The President of the Government raised her tone this Tuesday and once again attacked the measure, insisting that it fosters "a pull effect in the midst of an unprecedented migration crisis." In line with her Extremaduran counterpart, María Guardiola, Prohens insists on the anti-immigration discourse, a banner that the PP has set out to dispute with Vox.

While the PSIB spokesperson, Iago Negueruela, has accused the PP of promoting "boycott" of regularization in the town councils they control (the consistories issue permits), the president has assured that the socialists have "fooled people". "They opened the doors of their headquarters to use vulnerability for partisan purposes, and the entities themselves say that the information they provided is incorrect," she said.

In the same vein, she has lashed out at the PSOE for eliminating bureaucratic hurdles so that people who are in an irregular situation can resolve their administrative situation. "All they want to do is less paperwork, here responsible declarations and collaborative options that they systematically deny to families, entrepreneurs and self-employed people are valid," she continued. "This is not about rights, it is about instrumentalizing migrants, as they did with women," she sentenced.

The PSIB spokesperson, Iago Negueruela, has asked Prohens to "stop her hate speech and that of the far-right". In the same vein, he has requested that municipal services be provided with more resources to issue the vulnerability certificates needed to apply for regularization. For his part, the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, has lamented in a statement to the media the spat between the two majority parties over this regularization. "I am convinced that the PP would have approved a similar extraordinary regularization if they had governed," he said, and lamented that "partisan interests" interfere with the measure.

The PP was in favor of debating a regularization three years ago

The Spanish government has reproached the PP for its rejection of the extraordinary regularization when three years ago they were in favor of initiating a debate on the matter. In fact, at the beginning of the legislature, the PP voted in favor of processing a popular legislative initiative (ILP) on the regularization of foreigners in the Congress of Deputies. It only agreed to debate the measure, insisting that it would introduce amendments. But finally, the text was paralyzed in the Chamber in 2024, pending a report that has not yet been made.