The Minister of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduyassured this Friday that “Spain is not a racist country” and refused to accept that immigration is the main problem neither for the Spanish nor for the rest of Western societies, as highlighted in the latest survey by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS).
“I will not accept this premise; I will refuse to accept it because all the time we talk about migration, we do not talk about housing, tax justice, those who have more who pay more and we do not talk about expanding social rights or paying for conciliation permits to Spanish families,” he said in statements to the media before participating in the events of the “XVII Cotec Europe Summit”.
Thus, he spoke of “the situation that the Canary Islands are currently experiencing” for ask for “solidarity”taking the opportunity to accuse the “right and the far right” of being those who “blocked” the solution last year.
“Spain is a country committed to human rights, that is a united country“It is a country that aspires to social justice and is not this dark, fearful and racist country that some want to paint,” he stressed.
For Bustinduy, Spain has shown “on many occasions that it is a generous, supportive, inclusive and welcoming society”, attributing the consideration of immigration as a problem to the “political, informative and public treatment given to the reality of migration.
