Más Madrid and PSOE have resorted to the figure of Pope Leo XIV to try to get the PP to join the regularization process for migrant people, while the 'popular' party has refused to carry out "acts of faith" with what they consider the "most amoral, most lying, and most corrupt government in the history of Spain".
The clash of positions occurred during the debate of a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) by the PSOE in the Assembly of Madrid, which urged support for extraordinary regularization, recognition of the contribution of the migrant population, promotion of integration and coexistence policies, and strengthening of municipal powers in social services.
The defense of the initiative was carried out by the socialist deputy Silvia Monterrubio, who accused the right-wing of maintaining "a model in which thousands of people remain trapped in irregularity, exposed to exploitation and without the real capacity to defend themselves".
"We can understand that the welfare state has never concerned you much, but we do not understand your stance, because regularization is not a risk, quite the opposite, nor is it a lack of control, it is security," stressed the PSOE parliamentarian.
Coinciding with the imminent visit of the Pontiff to Spain, Monterrubio has called on the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to "keep her word and do in Madrid what she says in Rome: give rights to migrant people who are not bearers of poverty, they are people who come to enrich this region".
MÁS MADRID: "MIGRATION IS A RIGHT"
In the same vein, Más Madrid deputy Diana Paredes has stated that she trusts that the head of the regional Executive has conveyed to Pope Leo XIV her vision on "social justice and what she thinks about it being an invention of the left, of resentment and class struggle".
Paredes has warned that "I am not going to buy into the framework where it seems that migrant people have to ask permission to live based on being economically and laboriously productive. It is true that we are, and certainly much more so than Mr. (Santiago) Abascal and company. But I refuse to justify my existence based on terms of productivity or utilitarianism".
Likewise, he has defended that "the basis is that migration is a right" and that migrants "do not have to beg for rights that are not inalienable, but rather what they have to do is demand that these rights be fulfilled in Spain and anywhere else in the world".
THE PP REJECTS "ACTS OF FAITH"
From the Popular Group, deputy Mónica García has described the socialist proposal for the Community of Madrid to express its support for the royal decree, which in her opinion, "protects massive regularization," as "ridiculous." "It is trying to make us perform an act of faith with the most amoral, most lying, and most corrupt Government in the History of Spain," she reiterated.
García has accused the PSOE of trying to get the PP to "buy their pamphlets of royal decrees drafted with banana republic manuals" to give them "a democratic coat of paint and hide from the people of Madrid the reality they intend to conceal."
The deputy has lamented that "it seems incredible that I have to explain to them that loyalty must always go in two directions. Neither the city councils nor the autonomous communities have received any information whatsoever about this regularization process."
VOX CRITICIZES THE "MESSAGE" TO MAFIAS
Representing Vox, deputy Belén Gómez has reiterated that it is "a lie" to claim that Spain needs "massive" immigration because "there is a shortage of workers." "The reality is that hundreds of thousands of workers arrive willing to accept lower wages; the ones who are harmed are always the same: the least qualified Spaniards and the young people," she warned.
In her opinion, the message sent to mafias is that "the business is worth it and that they should continue bringing people illegally to Europe." Therefore, she has advocated that "Spaniards" should come "first" in access to employment, aid, housing, and public services.