Immigration is becoming the great matter to deal with political debate and now threatens to also tension relations within the government itself. Executive’s socialist wing sources explain to La Razón that They do not see viable the idea of regularizing more than half a million immigrants via decreejust as he slid yesterday.
They prefer, they say from Moncloa, that you are betting on carrying out the popular legislative initiative (ILP) for that purpose that, in reality, has been stranded in the Congress of Deputies for more than a year. This, however, does not seem viable for crossed speeches between the different groups and the crash of trains between colleagues of the Council of Ministers looks like something inevitable.
The General Coordinator of Sumar Movement, Lara Hernándezhe put the matter yesterday on the table practically by surprise. I was valuing the act of the PP of the weekend in which the match of Alberto Núñez Feijóo He proposed a visa for points migrants, when he said that “racism is answered with facts” and that “we claim that the extraordinary regulation of more than half a million people is approved before the end of October.”
For his words it seemed that he referred to the ILP, but then emphasized that “it has to be produced”, either through the parliamentary initiative or through “other mechanisms.” “Technical issues are not interested, what interests us is that it occurs as soon as possible,” he said, “the regularization of half a million migrants can be done by multiple ways,” he added.
Although Hernández deliberately avoided confirming it, the only possibility to regularize so many people and within that period, less than a month, is through a decree. It would be the same thing that already did José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero In 2005, also to give documentation to more than half a million. To bet on that way, it would not require being valid in Congress because no law would be modified and the Executive would not run into the vote against Junts or the PP.
However, sources from the Ministry of Inclusion consulted by this newspaper cool that possibility and send to add to work in the lower house, without shortcuts. “The government has always defended that The debate and negotiation of this initiative occurs in parliamentary headquarters And that all groups have the opportunity to pronounce, “they say.
“The ILP is an issue that is being discussed in Congress. The Minister, Elma Saiz, showed her support for the ILP and prepared last week to the groups to position themselves in Congress, which is the propitious scenario for it,” they insist.
And they add: “The official position in this regard is governed by the guidelines and initiatives marked by the President of the Government and by the Ministry of Migration, not by the opinions of any political force.” In addition to ruling out the way from the decree, by qualifying its government partner as a mere “political force”, from the socialist wing of the Council of Ministers they also show their anger for the fact that adding has opted for that pressure route.
But the main problem proposed by Moncloa is that this ILP shows no sign that it can advance in its processing. After a year stopped in the lower house, the government tried to accelerate it just before summer, after a series of failures in the regulations of the Foreigner lawand the position of the different parties showed that it is unfeasible.
On the one hand, the PP and the PNV seek to put as a condition the possession of some type of employment contract. On the other, Junts would only support him if the transfer of migratory skills to Catalonia occurs, a matter that declined last week in Parliament. And the different leftist partners do not see well the temporal framework proposed by the Ministry. Moncloa wanted to regularize all those migrants who had arrived in Spain before 2025, while the other parties are committed to regularizing all those in Spain at the time the ILP was approved.
Although, at least, the issue was on the table, the UCO report on Santos Cerdán and the fires revolutionized politics in summer and did not speak between parties of regularization again. Now, everyone is in electoral mode and it is very difficult to get to consensus.
It was seen last week, when Podemos tried for the last time. The formation of Ione Belarra He offered Junts his support to give up migratory competences in exchange for post -convergentes to give their support to the ILP. The purple considered the transfer of competitions a “racist” measure and tried a gesture in return. If they had succeeded, it would have been enough to approve it.
But it has already been seen that it did not pay off, precisely because those of Carles Puigdemont are hardening their migratory discourse. They are seeing how Catalan Aliança grows in the surveys, partly at his coast, precisely flying a xenophobic speech.