The second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, demanded the regularization of 500,000 illegal immigrants after the extension of the deadline for amendments to the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) registered in Congress with the aim of undertaking this extraordinary measure by one more week.
This was transmitted through a message on the social network “X”, in which he reminds the PSOE that the former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had already undertaken this regularization and that “we must start again.”
The Labour Party leader also said that when it comes to migration, “the right continues with its racist assumptions” and called for “regularising more than half a million workers without rights”. “Yesterday, from Sumar, we repeated that it must be promoted now. Zapatero has already done it“We have to start over,” Diaz said.
New extension
Congress has extended by another week the deadline for amendments to the ILP, which aims to regularize 500,000 illegal immigrants and which Sumar and Podemos, partners of the PSOE, have requested to be accelerated.
As Europa Press was able to confirm, The groups will have until Wednesday, September 11 to submit their amendments. supporter of the popular initiative.
The Council of Congress, with the vote of the PP and the PSOEalready extended the deadline for partial amendments until after the summer in June, despite protests from Sumar and Podemos, and now, in September, it has been agreed to extend it by another week, again with the opposition of representatives of the confederal group.
The ILP, supported by 700,000 signaturesarrived at the Congress last season and was qualified by the Congress Bureau on December 14, 2021. In April of this year, it was taken into consideration by the plenary session, with the support of the whole House except Voxand on June 13, it adopted another full debate, rejecting an alternative text from Vox.
ERC also presented a document to the Lower House requesting that there be no further extension of the deadline for submitting amendments, ensuring that it would not be “allowed” for this popular initiative to “fall into the forgotten drawer of parliamentary processing”.
