Podemos reiterates its "absolute no" to immigration transfers one day before the vote: "It has blatantly racist motives."

BarcelonaPodemos will not budge. The purple party reiterated its "absolute rejection" of the transfer of immigration powers to Catalonia one day before the measure, the result of an agreement between the PSOE and Junts. vote for the first time in Congress. The party's spokesman, Pablo Fernández, has closed the door to a last-minute change of position, as demanded by Carles Puigdemont's party: "We have clearly decided," he said in an interview on The ideas cafe, from La 2 and Radio 4. Fernández has argued that the transfer has "clearly and openly racist" motives and has attributed it to the "struggle" between the regional council members and the Catalan Alliance to see "who is more racist."

The proposal, which requires the votes of Podemos to move forward, foresees that the Catalan government assumes executive powers currently carried out by the State, such as residence permits, both temporary and long-term, and the issuance of foreign identification numbers (NIE), and that the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) will have a presence. Although it had been shelved for some time due to the lack of a sufficient majority, the chamber put it back on the table last week and this Tuesday a first debate will be held and the consideration will be voted on.

Fernández has repeated some of the arguments against the transfer of powers already put forward by his party in recent months and which will surely be emphasized in the lower house. Among others, he has pointed out the preamble of the standard to implement the transfer, in which—he asserted—"racist outrages" are called, such as immigration being a "problem" and a "danger" to social cohesion. But what is being said, if we stick to the literal meaning, is that the migration phenomenon can pose "a risk to coexistence and social cohesion."

Fernández wanted to remind us that the Lilacs have always been in favor of increasing Catalonia's self-government and its "right to decide," but he decided that the reasons behind this immigration transfer are a "red line" for Podemos. It must be remembered thatIn a recent interview in the ARA,At the end of July, party leader Ione Belarra made it clear that as long as Podemos is needed in Congress, this law will not be passed. In that case, she argued that if the National Police and the Civil Guard are already carrying out "racist raids," the Mossos d'Esquadra, who have much "more presence in the region," would be the ones doing the same in Catalonia.

While waiting to see how Junts reacts to the new slam, which will gather its permanent assembly in Waterloo this Monday, party sources stated in recent days that they had asked Belarra herself to "talk" to try to bring positions closer together. The same sources explained that so far they had not received any response.