“The left has to talk about what things.” It is a phrase that the spokesman for Republican Esquerra, Gabriel Rufián, used a few days ago to abrive progressive formations for not entering the discussion that the extreme right about immigration is raising. In a context in which Vox, other smaller formations such as Alise Pérez's and now also the PP accompany his speech with words such as multirreincidididad or insecurity, add believes that the government should respond with a completely different framework and sees in extraordinary regularization an opportunity.
The speeches of the extreme right have placed immigration between the five main problems for citizens, as the latter show CIS barometers. The trend is not new, a year ago the campaigns of these forces turned this issue into the main concern of the respondents. But this summer has intensified again, on horseback of events like that of Torre Pacheco, with all the right, also the PP or Junts, in a spiral of increasingly racist speeches.
Last Sunday, in fact, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, brought together the barons of his party in Murcia to raise a series of immigration policies, including a reform to expel foreign persons with legal residence in Spain who commit “recidivities even if they are slight”.
In a scenario like this, add believes that the government has to undertake concrete measures to try to change the framework of the conversation and that is why it has asked its partner to accelerate the extraordinary regularization of migrants who have the parties in Congress. The proposal was born from a popular legislative initiative with more than 600,000 signatures but its processing is completely blocked.
The idea that transferred this week is that the government “leads to the discussion of regularization”. These are the words used by the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, just one day after the PP presented in Murcia its package of immigration measures. “The best defense of migrants is that they have rights,” he said.
Sumar Movement, his party, refined the idea a little later and put October as a date for this regularization to be approved, although the party coordinator, Lara Hernández, did not tied that demand to the specific negotiations that are taking place around the ILP of the Congress. “Technical issues are not interested, what interests us is to occur as soon as possible,” he explained to journalists' questions.
The problem posed by the date of October is that regularization by parliamentary route does not depend on the will of a single part. It is not enough to press the PSOE or Podemos or Junts, but it is about articulating an agreement that recipons different sensibilities on that same law, even more in a context in Congress in which the positions of the groups, especially those of the Catalan independentistas and the formation of Ione Belarra, are less and less flexible.
In summary, we can demand a regularization of all people until the entry into force of the law while the Basque Nationalist Party, for example, wants to limit the measure to people with employment contract or who carry out an economic activity, although they were open during the negotiation to expand those criteria. And Junts does not want to take more steps if immigration powers to Catalonia are not transferred, as requested by the law they registered and that the congress knocked just a few days ago for the refusal of Podemos.
Ione Belarra's party has asked the Government in recent weeks to drive regularization via Royal Decree, without the need to go through Congress, and it is that second option that these days put some voices of adding without daring to claim it publicly. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero used this option, that of the Royal Decree, to promote the regularization of 2005, the last approved in Spain, although it is true that it did by the development of the regulation of a reform of the Foreigners Law approved two years earlier.
That is why in the socialist part of the Government they rule out any way other than the Congress through the ILP. If that initiative is going forward, they consider that the Executive would already have enough framework to approve a decree that shaped regularization. Without the clothing of the law, they consider, they would not have the capacity to implement a measure of that scope. “The frame is that of the ILP, there is no other,” Zanjan. Inform Irene Castro.
In the move they clarify that it is not so much about entering a clash with the PSOE so that regularization is done by decree but to mark a temporary horizon so that the measure is a reality. The idea of launching that top has to do with placing the pressure in the different actors, well the government parties, or the parliamentary forces that negotiate in Congress, so that the measure comes to light.
“If socially we do not achieve a favorable environment towards immigration, conservative drives are the ones that will overcome,” sources of that formation argue, where they consider that the reactivation of this measure can change the axis of the conversation so that immigration becomes a problem among people to a matter of “dignity” and “citizenship.”