Mazón joins forces with Vox to distinguish immigrants in statistics, including blood donations.
The PP and the far right also agree to eliminate inclusive language and the equality and LGBTI commissions from the Spanish Parliament.
ValenciaThe PP's parliamentary group in the Valencian Parliament has again conceded to Vox. In its crusade against immigration, the far-right party has persuaded the conservatives to include indicators in the Valencian Statistics Plan that divide the population between nationals and immigrants on issues such as the use of healthcare, public aid, and even blood donation. In the words of Spanish government spokesperson Pilar Alegría, the objective is to "single out, stigmatize, and criminalize migrants." "I would call them hate lists," she denounced at a press conference from the Moncloa Palace on Tuesday, criticizing the policies of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party as a "bad copy" of Vox.
The PP and Vox approved this Monday in the Economy, Budget and Treasury Committee of Les Corts a resolution proposal presented by the latter to urge the Consell to incorporate into the Valencian Statistics Plan 2025-2028 a series of "differentiating statistics" between "national population" and "national population" and "national population" and ". Specifically, Santiago Abascal's party asks for this differentiation in the data of the net contribution to the welfare state, the receipt of aid, the use of emergency health services, the number of existing blood donors and absenteeism in private companies and the public administration, in the latter case also "differentiating between men and women and age".
During the debate in Les Corts, on Monday night, Vox deputy Teresa Ramírez defended the initiative, arguing that currently "one of the aspects that most concern society is the uncontrolled and unbridled entry of immigrants without papers and without identity", so, in his opinion, ". He also asked "what problem is there" in requesting these differentiated statistics.
The opposition harshly charged against this new concession of the popular to Vox. "This is not public policy, it is the ideology of hatred with an institutional seal. The PP has decided to put numbers to the prejudices of Vox", said the socialist spokesman for Economy in the Cortes, José Díaz, who has described the measure as "a blatant attempt to criminalize the migrant population and normalize racism from the Official Gazette". "That the PP accepts to differentiate who uses healthcare or who donates blood according to their nationality is simply repugnant. It is the furthest thing from a modern and decent democracy," says Díaz.
For her part, the Compromís deputy, Aitana Mas, has lamented that the PP is once again "buying into the most retrograde and xenophobic discourse of Vox in a dispute to see who is capable of seeing who is capable, and has added that "they do so with premises based on lies and unfair assumptions" in a "new concession by the PP to keep Mazón as president of the Generalitat." equality". In the same initiative by both parties, it is agreed to remove inclusive language from the chamber's publications and "use the language recommended by the RAE". The spokesperson for Vox in Les Corts, José María Llanos, emphasized the importance of the reform, since it "represents a symbolic and political change of great significance" in identity and reinforces the central role of the family.
The xenophobic party also highlighted the modification of the parity of the tables: "The balance is maintained, but the zipper rule, which imposed a rigid mechanism on the election of positions, disappears. This measure avoids the imposition of automatic gender quotas and gives more freedom to the election process." The PSPV spokesperson in Les Corts, José Muñoz, stated that "today is a bad day" for the Valencian Country: "We have a president who makes a banner of racism, criminalizing it and who attacks it deliberately, and for the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to take measures "to stop this drift." The Compromís ombudsman, Joan Baldoví, accused the PP and Vox of wanting to create "a new smokescreen to cover up their responsibility for the death of 229 people during the cold drop" on October 29, and highlighted the human persons."