Vox contemplates all scenarios, including breaking its coalition governments with the PP in several autonomous communities, in the event that the popular parties accept the legal reform for the mandatory distribution of migrant minors among the communities, as promoted by the central government and that of the Canary Islands.
While waiting to know what position the PP adopts regarding the reform of the Immigration Law, which has the endorsement of the PP of the Canary Islands, Vox sources indicate that the mandatory distribution of migrant minors is a red line that could lead them to review their agreements with the PP.
In the territories in which it governs with the PP -Castilla y León, Valencian Community, Extremadura, Aragón and the Region of Murcia-, Vox has stated that immigration policy is decisive. The spokesperson for Vox in Congress, Pepa Millán, even called it a “critical issue.”
Tension in the Vox-PP relationship
In Castilla y León, the spokesperson for the Junta, Carlos Fernández Carriedo (PP), offered this Thursday the “maximum willingness” of this community to continue being a “host land” for unaccompanied foreign minors who come from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, while considering that the impact of this position on the agreement with Vox should be decided by that party.
The distribution of migrant minors is the element that can most strain the relationship with the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, according to the same sources from the Santiago Abascal party.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo (l), and that of Vox, Santiago Abascal (r), at the end of the Congress plenary session. EFE/Kiko Huesca
Vox also wants to analyze the implications of the agreement reached between the PP and the PSOE to renew the General Council of the Judiciary, but differentiates it from the immigration issue, because this is not a policy of an autonomous nature, but a decision taken by Alberto Núñez Feijóo that the leaders of his party support or abide by.
The party of Santiago Abascal will respond to the position that the PP adopts on immigration in the different territories and highlights that within the PP there is not in any case a common position.
The agreement between the Government and the Canary Islands, in the spotlight
The agreement between the central Government and that of the Canary Islands, where the PP co-governs, proposes modifying article 35 of the Immigration Law so that, when the resources of a community are above 150% of its capacity, the minors welcomed are referred to other regions of the country based on criteria agreed in 2022 in a Sectoral Conference, such as GDP or population.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, together with the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has made a first round of meetings with the parliamentary groups to gather support and move this text forward, which he will also present at the next Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, which will be held in the Canary Islands in the coming weeks.
The reform of the Immigration Law must be approved in the Congress of Deputies, where parliamentary partners such as Junts have already expressed their reservations, as the Catalan separatists demand that Catalonia be excluded from this distribution.
