After demanding the closure of the Rosa Peña Juvenile Center in the Santa Cruz area of the Murcia region, which also hosted migrant boys and girls, in exchange for signing the regional budget, Vox now called on the party to submit a proposal to close all spaces with these characteristics in the Murcia region. We are requesting support and the issue will be raised in Congress this Wednesday: “The Popular Party has the opportunity to close all centers for illegal immigrants that depend on autonomous communities”, said José Ángel Antero, leader of the formation of Abascal in the region.
Vox argued that these centers are under “autonomous jurisdiction” and that the closure of the Santa Cruz center shows that the remaining centers can be closed as well. “If we need to enter into a dispute with the national government to protect regional interests, we will do so.”
The far-right group, which addressed the media in front of the Beniahan villa, claimed that the local government planned to acquire the villa as a shelter for underage migrants. “We do not want to open any new villas in Santa Cruz, in Beniajan or anywhere in the region,” Antero claimed.
This editorial team has contacted the Murcia Ministry of Social Policy regarding the motion that Box will submit next Wednesday, but has not received a response.
“That won’t happen again.”
Last July, when PP and Vox were still in the midst of negotiations to sign the local budget, the local government succumbed to threats from far-right parties and refused to acquire housing to ensure 385 homes were “adapted to the new childcare model”.
“The community cancels the order that considered the acquisition of housing to accommodate unaccompanied foreign minors. It is wise to rectify it. It will not happen again,” Murcia Social Policy Minister Conchita Ruiz was quoted in X magazine at the time after halting the purchase of these properties.
8 points pending agreement
Closing the Santa Cruz Center was one of the points at which the public accepted the Vox budget deal. The other eight items of the agreement remain on hold to allow the account to proceed.
Abascal officials called on the local government to introduce “a new management model for local public housing, ensuring priority access to housing for citizens who need it most, as well as the fight against the occupying mafia by donating at least 1.5 million euros.” So far, affordable housing plans put forward by popular parties have been rejected by Vox, who claim that “where there is ‘symbiosis’ there is no Vox”. Land law guidelines are also scheduled to be revised.
Amendments to the Mar Menor Law are also pending. “The two parties commit to developing the legal reforms necessary for its protection by building new infrastructure that contributes to its preservation and by starting a process for reviewing and reforming the law by October 2025,” the budget agreement states.
Leading political parties have pledged to draw up an allocation of 5.5 million euros for the signing of a new framework agreement on the fire and rescue consortium, which must be formalized by the end of the year. Along these lines, and within the same deadline, a new Integrated Emergency Response and Safety Center construction project must be put out to bid.
In addition to cutting subsidies to trade unions, which already apply and are currently under the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court, Vox also called for an end to aid to NGOs that, in Abascal’s words, “collaborate with or profit from illegal immigration.” The Popular Party has also signed on not to accept the arbitrary distribution of illegal immigrants arriving in other parts of Spain, but has previously insisted it will “follow the law” when it comes to immigration.
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