Vox takes the conflict (and lies) over Salt to Congress

MadridHe conflict in Salt following the eviction of the imam from that town and his daughter reached Congress last week. It was in this Wednesday's control session led by Vox leader Santiago Abascal, who used the case to criticize Pedro Sánchez for his immigration policy. "We have seen in Salt the consequences of his immigration policy and of the groups that support him [...] This model is the destruction of the town of Salt so that the radical imam can be given social housing," the far-right leader complained, despite the City Council explicitly denying this this weekend. Several sources consulted by ARA confirm that they are distributed among the homes of friends and acquaintances. The far-right leader has even exaggerated the consequences of the riots in Salt, stating that "an entire town was destroyed."

Abascal has also stressed that the "Salt thugs - there were up to six people arrested for clashes with the Mossos d'Esquadra - chanted Pedro Sánchez's name", and has denounced the agreement with Junts to distribute foreign minors among the autonomous communities announced this Tuesday "except in Catalonia." The distribution criteria make Catalonia one of the territories that will now receive fewer adolescent migrants from the Canary Islands and Ceuta, but because it is one of the regions that has received the most so far. Abascal's xenophobic rhetoric has earned him a rebuke from the Spanish president, who accused him of "stirring hatred" against foreign minors who "live and work" in the state and, conversely, "admiring the techno-oligarchs who go against the interests of Spain."

Sánchez responded that the main threat to the state's prosperity was not immigration, but the tariffs on agriculture and industry announced by Donald Trump, Abascal's ally in the international far-right. The president of Vox, who has just reached an agreement with Carlos Mazón in the Valencian Government to approve his budget in exchange for not accepting migrant minors, insisted that the PSOE and PP share the same immigration policy, led by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. "Don't criticize the PP so much," Abascal told Sánchez, in an attempt to embrace Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is so uncomfortable with this issue that he didn't even criticize the PSOE-Juntos pact this Tuesday during the control session.