The PP of Murcia yields to Vox again and it is proposed to close a minor reception center | Spain

The PP of Murcia has made a New concession to VOX demands And, for the first time, he has been willing to close a minors reception center against which those of Santiago Abascal have been launching their hate messages for years. The closure of this center has been demanding in different pacts, both of government and budgets, signed by the two parties, but so far the PP had never questioned their maintenance, something that the ultraconservatives threw them in a recurrent face.

In the Plenary Session of the Regional Assembly held on Wednesday, the Minister of Social Policy, Conchita Ruiz, gave a turn to that speech and assured that this center of minors « has no place in our model of reception and residential foster care. » In the center, which is located in a district of Huerta de Murcia, Santa Cruz, with about 2,600 inhabitants, they currently reside, said the counselor, 60 minors « in prolonged stay », despite the fact that this institution « was designed for a first time reception in a temporary way. » Sources of the Ministry have explained to El País that in the Region of Murcia there are no specific centers for the care of unaccompanied foreign minors, but that these children and adolescents are integrated into the minors’s foster care network, so that in the facilities of Santa Cruz they coexist Spanish and foreign minors coexist, as in the rest of the reception resources.

In the Autonomous Community, 619 unaccompanied migrants current. The counselor insisted before the Chamber that both the European Union, and UNICEF and the Ministry of Childhood and Youth bet on “a clear transformation into the attention to minors, Spanish and foreigners” and that this model is not what the center of Santa Cruz offers.

« Centers are not the best place for a child to grow and, therefore, that center has no place in our residential reception and foster care model, » he said. And he has clarified that there are nine other entities that have already adapted their spaces in that regard, while others have started the way to do so. From the Ministry of Social Policy they have not clarified where these minors will be housed if this center is closed. The counselor has indicated on numerous occasions that the regional network has exceeded its reception capacity by 220 percent, and it is the data in which it is shield to argue that there are not enough resources to participate in the distribution of minors from the Canary Islands. Although at no time in his speech Ruiz referred to Vox requests, his speech has been interpreted as a clear concession to one of the historical requests of the Ultra Party in this Autonomous Community.

The counselor was captured by the photographers talking in the halls of the Regional Assembly with the parliamentary spokesman of Vox, Rubén Martínez, and on the same day there was also a meeting between the spokesman of the PP in the Chamber, Joaquín Segado, and the regional leader of Vox, José Ángel Antelo who, for the moment, has not valued the statements of the counselor. In the same plenary session, which was a control session with questions to the government, those of VOX inquired about the elimination of An educational program aimed at Moroccan studentswhich have become their new battle horse in the Autonomous Community. The Minister of the Presidency and Government spokesman, Marcos Ortuño, however, did not make concessions here and maintained the position that has been defended in recent weeks: that the program, in addition to absolutely minority (348 of the 320,000 students in the region, and always during extracurricular schedule) is always state and, therefore, it is not in the hands of Fernando López. Those of Abascal have made the Regional Assembly their favorite forum to start the PP nearby positions To their postulates: this week, the popular joined a Vox motion To « condemn » the European green pact, already beginning of March agreed with them another motion to boost the repatriation of Unaccompanied migrants to their countries of origin