PP spokesman Borja Sémper reiterated this Monday the request that the central government assist communities to help them manage the arrival of migrants in Spain and acknowledged the inability of the autonomous governments led by his party to do so. of what he called “unprecedented migratory pressure.” Sémper said this Monday at a press conference that the regions governed by the PP were “overwhelmed” and criticized the “passivity of the Government.”
Sémper appeared before the media after the meeting of the Steering Committee and criticized the President of the Government for having undertaken “a tour of Mauritania, Gambia and Senegal” that begins this Monday, despite the complaints of the PP to the Government for weeks precisely to increase its foreign policy in these countries, from where the boats that transport migrants from continental Africa to the Spanish coasts of the Canary Islands or the peninsula usually depart.
The PP has modified its demands and now demands that Pedro Sánchez “know the reality that is going through” his “autonomous communities.” “We encourage the president of the government to also begin a tour of Spain and find out what the situation is in the absolutely saturated reception centers,” said Sémper.
The PP spokesman went so far as to accuse Sánchez of not having set foot in “any of the autonomous communities that are causing unprecedented migratory pressure”, just three days after his meeting on the island of La Palma with the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, who has been demanding for weeks that the PP accept the reform of the immigration law that would systematize and make mandatory interterritorial solidarity in the reception of migrant minors.
Sémper highlighted the inability of the communities governed by the PP to face the so-called migration crisis. “The autonomous communities are still overwhelmed and now need a solution,” he noted. The PP demanded additional funding from the central government to care for minors, even though the powers are autonomous since some of the autonomies governed by Feijóo’s party manage budgets that approach and exceed 30 billion euros.
“The government is doing nothing. The problem is that we do not have an immigration policy in our country. There is no immigration policy that controls the borders, there are no resources to take care of the people who come to our country,” said Sémper, who demanded that the government “provide resources to communities” in the face of an alleged migration crisis. This, he predicted, “will last for months and years.” “This is not going to stop. How we organize ourselves and face this challenge is vital,” he concluded.
