The PP still does not satisfy Vox after six years of assignments at ultra pressure on immigration | Spain

Discriminate immigrants according to their « culture. » Betray No papers. Remove funds for integration. Exclude NGOs from subsidies. All wrapped in the language – « Effect called », « Menas » – typical of the extreme right. This is the balance of more than six years of assignments in immigration of the PP to Vox, a series that Santiago Abascal wants to prolong now in exchange for its support for budgets in six communities. Vox has already indicated to the PP what should be his model to follow if he wants agreements: Carlos Mazónits weakest and weakest autonomous baron.

In addition to asking the government of the nationality of those involved in the « Pillage » after the Danahe President Valencian greased on Monday his parliamentary negotiation folding one of Vox’s demands. « We will not admit illegal immigration distributions, » he said about the reception of minors who They overflow the capabilities of the Canary Islands. It remains to be seen What do the rest of the presidents do They depend on Vox. But the theme has already become a hot potato for the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which leads from the emergence of Vox supporting his demand for more hard hand with immigration. In any case, barons such as Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, or El Gallego, Alfonso Rueda, have already assured that « they will comply with the law » of the distribution of minors although they then resort to the courts.

How has the PP fought so far with that challenge? On the one hand, the direction and some barons have hardened his rhetoric. On the other, there have been assignments of the PP in writing, programmatic, to achieve institutional power. It remains to be seen if now new deliveries take place not only verbal, such as Mazón on Monday, but with signature: new pacts. The sure thing is that so far nothing has placated Vox, which is insatiable. Moreover, last summer Abascal broke his Five governments autonomic agreements After accepting the PP the reception of 347 minors and since then it only increases the pressure.

The first, Moreno

The assignments began to the first opportunity, in Andalusia. After the December 2018 regionalthe PP pact with Vox to make Juan Manuel Moreno president established the commitment to avoid a “effect called” and “guarantee an immigration respectful of our western culture”, a formula used by the extreme right throughout Europe to ellipically justify the elliptically Rejection of Muslims. The pact stated that the Board would « documentaryly » support the police forces in their work for an « orderly immigration », a point included just when Vox pressed so that the Andalusian Health Service betrayed the irregular immigrants who took the medical card.

During the first legislature of Moreno, PP, CS and Vox they reached several budget agreements, with measures such as removing 600,000 euros for integration and allocating them to judicial buildings and erase 3 million for external cooperation and give them to the Food Bank. The Board, to questions from El País, ensures that these changes were not made. For what the agreements were worth it was for their exhibition as Vox trophies. « First, ours », celebrated the game the change of 3 million.

PP, CS and Vox also agreed measures to « contain » the « external risks » of the « Mena Centers. » Again, they gave coverage to Vox campaigns. Less than two weeks later, the then VOX leader Rocío Monastery went to Seville to alert before an immigrant center of the “Menas de Menas” risk.

Institutional delation

In 2022 Moreno was fought from Vox with its absolute majority. Today is one of the softest voices of the PP on immigration. While Feijóo has linked it with crimehis lieutenant Miguel Tellado has defended the Army deployment off the African coast and Isabel Díaz Ayuso has resorted to Feminationalist speech That relates the arrival of Muslims with the danger for women, Moreno has distinguished himself by appealing to the « heart of the width » of the Andalusians to defend the reception of minors. « We are not fans, » said the Andalusian president this week, with the debate to Red Vivo.

Other barons, on the other hand, have not managed to get rid of Vox. For example, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. The agreement for your Investiture in Castilla y León in 2022 established the promotion of an « orderly immigration » and the fight against « mafias. » It is a rhetoric that PP and Vox share, but in which Vox puts a greater emphasis. Much farther was Mazón, than came to power in 2023 Thanks to an agreement that established that the Generalitat « will inform » of the National Police and the Civil Guard the cases of foreigners without papers, in a kind of institutionalization of the delation. In addition, it collected the end of subsidies to NGOs collaborating with the « illegal immigration. »

After Mazón was the investiture of Marga Prohensin the Balearic Islands, and Fernando López Mirasin Murcia. In the island community the Pact promised « documentary collaboration » with the forces of the order to « repatriate » foreigners in a « illegal » situation. Again, delation from public administration. In addition, it demanded the « legal residence » and not only the « registration » to opt for subsidies, also vetoed for NGOs that « collaborate with the mafias. » For his part, the writing Murcia was sparse: « Coordination (police) to prevent crime (…) and fight against the mafias of illegal immigration. » An agreement that forced the autonomous competence limits.

Both in the Valencian Community and in the Balearic Islands and Murcia measures on immigration were placed in the agreements between those related to the fight against the Housing occupation and those destined for greater police reinforcement. That is, they appear as a matter of security, of public order. Right where Vox places immigration.

The country asked the governments of the five communities cited in which the pacts on immigration between the PP and Vox translated. The Junta de Andalucía, in addition to pointing out that the budgetary changes were not carried out, says through a spokesman that multiple agreements affected state powers, from which it follows that they had a declarative character and could not be applied either. A spokesman for the Murcian Executive highlights the progress that – at his judgment – have meant measures such as “increasing subsidies” for local police. Instead, he clarifies anything about what the “fight against the mafias” that collected the agreement was completed. The rest did not respond.

As an alternative for Germany

The assignments have not been limited to the hardening of rhetoric and autonomic agreements. There have also been them in the municipal land. An example: in Burgos, the PP came to accept last year eliminating aid to NGOs working with immigrants except Cáritas, An agreement against which the Church’s own entity was stirred. After the protests, the popular mayor, Cristina Ayala, turned back, which led to the rupture of the Burgos coalition. Now Abascal continues to press in the communities where it is key to get the accounts. It is required not only to refuse to the distribution of minors that the government intends, but also approve “return plans” of “illegal”. To this general claim other individuals are added. In Balearic Islands, Vox demands dental studies to migrants to verify whether they are really minor.

Toni Aira, Professor of Political Communication at the Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona School of Management, believes that Vox will not stop squeezing. And go to the PP « caught. » If it does not yield, he explains, it can be seen without support. But even if he does, he will not deactivate Vox, who will always « want more », since the hard anti-immigration discourse is his hallmark, he adds. Aira believes that the PP pays the price of not having « marked a clear position » on immigration. “It is not in the center, accusing one and another of radicals, but moves without criteria from one side to another. If an electoral campaign arrives and this is imposed Frame (Debate frame), Feijóo will suffer, ”he says.

The PP, says Aira, cannot be justified before the moderate electorate, removing importance from its autonomous agreements with Vox on the grounds that the lack of immigration powers or the breach of some commitments have limited its impact. And he cannot, according to the professor, for two reasons: because he would be as an unreliable partner and because « the mere announcement » of the agreements « has fed » Vox.

The PP acts as « Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde, » says political consultant Eli Gallardo. “Sometimes they have a firm speech against Vox, but below agree. Sometimes they buy all Vox speech, but they don’t agree because Vox does not want. And why don’t he want? Because he has decided to present himself as the pure anti-immigration party, as Alternative for Germanyto consolidate your electorate. That is why your pressure is permanent and will be difficult to content with assignments, ”he says.

This incessant Vox controversy search on immigration is not exempt from electoral logic. Studies in magazines Oxford and Cambridgeas published in Electoral Studies and in The Political QuarterlyThey indicate that greater political-media attention to immigration favors the hardest speech parties. However, Gallardo believes that this voltage on the right also has a Vox cost. « Not because there is a more moderate wing, » he says, « but because there is a sector that observes that, with this strategy, You cannot agree with the PP and you cannot touch power”