The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, spoke this Friday about the , in which both parties have introduced the principle of “national priority” for “access to all aid, subsidies and public benefits.” “No one can be left out of a system in which they have contributed, such as, for example, the health system,” he stated.
“I believe in law and order and, therefore, I think that you cannot illegally leave anyone out of the requirements for which they have rights,” said the Madrid president in Brussels, after meeting with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen. Ayuso added that, in his opinion, many of these requirements “are not legal”: “I know that time will put everything in its place.”
To achieve the investiture of María Guardiola in Extremadura, the popular have committed to , with the aim of ending the prohibition of discriminating against immigrants. The agreement contemplates “the exclusion of access to structural social benefits and services for those who are in an irregular situation, limiting their access exclusively to cases of vital urgency.”
When Díaz Ayuso was asked directly about the pact between PP and Vox in Extremadura, he congratulated María Guardiola. Criticism or doubts about the content of the pact have come when he spoke directly about the content of the agreement on migration.
Vox spokesperson in the Community of Madrid, Isabel Pérez Moñino, has attacked Ayuso for ensuring that some of the agreed requirements are not legal. “This year is going to be long for you, Ayuso. In Madrid we are also going to demand national priority in housing, health or aid, whether you like it or not,” he assured, although Ayuso has an absolute majority.
Afterwards, Díaz Ayuso went to the CEOE headquarters in the EU capital where he gave a speech to an audience made up mainly of representatives of companies and employers’ organizations. In his words, when he has addressed migration he has tried to adopt a position far from the central government, with very critical words about regularization, and with Vox: “You cannot make everyone the same, without knowing anything, and there is chaos left behind; or the national priority that others also impose, which is neither legal nor in accordance with the law.”
To achieve the investiture of María Guardiola in Extremadura, the popular have committed to , with the aim of ending the prohibition of discriminating against immigrants. The agreement contemplates “the exclusion of access to structural social benefits and services for those who are in an irregular situation, limiting their access exclusively to cases of vital urgency.” This implies, according to PP sources, that immigrants will not have access to Extremadura’s basic insertion income, while it remains up in the air whether universal public healthcare is also ended and the possibility of having healthcare assistance is restricted to foreigners except for vital emergencies.
Sources from the Extremaduran PP have stressed to this newspaper that “access to healthcare is as stated in current legislation”, but the text of the agreement is ambiguous and in another section there is talk of improving the healthcare system to “guarantee accessible and quality care for Spaniards”. The Minister of Health of Extremadura assured this Thursday, hours before the investiture pact was announced, .
Accusation of ‘narco-states’ against Latin American countries
At the doors of the European Commission headquarters, the president has opposed the holding of an event in Madrid with the Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado this Saturday with the summit of progressive leaders of Barcelona chaired by Pedro Sánchez in Barcelona, and has harshly criticized the second. “Perhaps there are two photos: that of that meeting of the free world and a meeting of narco-states around President Sánchez, who wants to establish himself as the leader of a confederation of some countries that are not characterized by being liberal democracies. Quite the opposite. So on the one hand there is the photo of freedom and the photo of… many of them, narco-states.”
