The PP acknowledges that it will host the minors in their communities: “The Popular Party always complies with the law, on this occasion, too.”
The rule requires children and young people to be rehoused when another area exceeds its capacity by three. The president of Melilla, also from the PP, asks his colleagues for a “gesture of solidarity”.
The question has been hanging over every press conference given by a Popular Party leader since last Thursday, when 72,000 people entered Ceuta. Will the regions, mostly governed by the PP, take in the minors who arrived that day? And what about those that share the government with Vox after having signed agreements in which they specifically oppose their guardianship?
At the start of the crisis, Alberto Núñez Feijóo sidestepped the issue when he appeared in the autonomous city. “They know our immigration plan,” the PP leader responded evasively on Saturday. Five days later, Genoa acknowledges that its autonomies will rehouse foreign children and minors, although the barons protest and oppose all kinds of obstacles, considering the mandatory distribution to be unfair.
“The Popular Party always complies with the law; on this occasion, too. We and our governments,” the vice-secretary for Autonomous and Municipal Policy, Elías Bendodo, assumed this Thursday. The rule obliges them to give them shelter when another territory exceeds its capacity to attend to them by three, as is the case with Ceuta. And “complying with the law” implies accepting this distribution.
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