The PP candidate for Congress for Barcelona and mayor of Badalona (Barcelona), Xavier García Albiol, has warned this Friday that Catalonia "does not have an indefinite capacity to accommodate" immigrant people.
Speaking to the media in Lloret de Mar (Girona), accompanied by the candidate for Congress for Girona, Diana Moya, he has stated that "Catalonia cannot be turned into the back yard of Pedro Sánchez's irregular immigration".
Albiol has expressed himself in this way in front of a hotel in which, supposedly, immigrant people who had arrived from the Canary Islands would have been housed and which this Friday, as he has denounced, "is sealed as if it were closed for the low season".
"If this hotel yesterday and the day before yesterday was open and was filled with immigrant people in an irregular situation, why at the moment when I denounce it and say that I will come here to give visibility to this hotel is closed and boarded up?", the Popular Party leader has asked.
In this line, he has demanded that Sánchez clarify "immediately how many immigrants in an irregular situation have entered" into Spain, in which cities they are located, and what the Government's plan is regarding them.
"If everything is so normal, let them not seal up the hotels and let them answer the three questions I am asking them," the candidate concluded, who also accused Sánchez of violating the European immigration pact.
Criticism by Diana Moya of migration management
For her part, the candidate for Girona has stated that "unfortunately there are mafias that are taking advantage of the misery of people with the connivance and the necessary cooperation of the Government of Pedro Sánchez".
"Pedro Sánchez has decided to pass so recklessly on control of our borders. We have seen it in Ceuta and we have seen it in the Canary Islands," Moya has pointed out, emphasizing her criticism of the Executive's immigration policy.
In addition, she has warned that "the Costa Brava cannot be turned into his shelter in a whimsical manner, without taking into account the opinion of the neighbors nor taking into account the opinion of the merchants of Lloret de Mar nor of any municipality where he decides to set up his immigrants".