The spokesperson for the Vox Parliamentary Group, Carlos Pollán, specified this Friday, when questioned by the media, what is understood by care for people in irregular situations solely in "cases of vital emergency," as stated in the PP-Vox government pact in Castilla y León. He stressed that it is one of the "many points" of the agreement that still need to be specified.
"It will be developed and the assumptions and cases will be seen, and how we can develop all these points of the Government agreement," said the future first vice-president of the Junta in the coalition Executive.
The spokesperson for the Popular Group, Leticia García, expressed herself in the same vein, emphasizing that the PP-Vox agreement includes "inspiring criteria" that will now have to be deployed. "I think it is better to take into account that these inspiring criteria that will lead us to regulate the different calls for aid, subsidies, assistance, care, we have to leave it for each specific case and it will be developed in the future," she added.
Pollán emphasized that Vox is "clear" that Spanish citizens should not suffer the collapse of health services or other public services "due to illegal immigration, often." Therefore, he reiterated his intention to apply the point of the pact that provides for the exclusion from access to structural social benefits and services of those in an irregular administrative situation, limiting their coverage solely "to cases of vital emergency."
At the same time, he reiterated that Vox is also clear that it will "fight head-on" against illegal immigration, insisting that everything included in the agreement signed on Wednesday in Castilla y León will be guided by this premise.
When asked if he was aware of any NGO in Castilla y León that was violating the law, Pollán expressed his "surprise" at the criticism from representatives of non-governmental organizations who feel singled out by Vox as collaborators in illegal immigration.
"We have not said or pointed out anything," defended Pollán, who explained that his party's position is not to support with public funds those NGOs that, in his opinion, may contribute to a pull effect for illegal immigration.
In this regard, he has announced that, once they enter the regional Government, they will review all aid granted and examine current files to determine if NGOs are effectively encouraging that pull effect and if they are acting as collaborators in illegal immigration. "NGOs that comply with the law and agree to everything have nothing to fear."
For her part, Leticia García has reiterated that each decision will be made "always complying with legality" and within the jurisdictional framework of the autonomous community. When asked about the possible reduction of aid when public utility is not proven, she has defended that there is nothing "strange or scandalous" about it and has explained that the pact requires objectively demonstrating that the subsidies granted respond to that principle of public utility, "something basic of administrative law," she stressed.
In relation to subsidies directed at unions and employers' associations, the former Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment for a large part of the previous legislature —after Vox left the Executive— has assured that, neither now nor during her time in the Government, is she aware that any aid has been granted that does not comply with that public utility requirement.