Prohens raises the tone against the regularization of immigrants and accuses the PSOE of fostering "the pull effect"

PalmThe PP and the PSIB continue to battle over the extraordinary regularization of immigrants approved by the Spanish government. The President of the Govern has raised her tone this Tuesday and has once again lashed out at the measure, insisting that it encourages "the pull effect in the midst of an unprecedented migratory 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 spokesperson for the PSIB, Iago Negueruela, has accused the PP of promoting "the boycott" of regularization in the town halls they control (the councils issue permits), the president has assured that the socialists have "deceived 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 removing bureaucratic hurdles so that people in irregular situations can resolve their administrative status. "The only thing they want to do is less paperwork, here responsible declarations and collaborative options are valid, which they systematically deny to families, business owners, and the self-employed," she continued. "This is not about rights, it is about instrumentalizing migrants, as they did with women," she stated.

The spokesperson for the PSIB, 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 required to apply for regularization. For his part, the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, has lamented in a statement to the media the quarrel between the two majority parties over this regularization. "I am convinced that the PP would have approved a similar extraordinary regularization if they had been in government," he said, and he 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 opened up 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 produced.