Tellado says that no president of the PP will ask for powers in Immigration and calls on Sánchez to "rethink"

He believes that the PSOE "suffers great difficulties in explaining the agreement sealed with Puigdemont's party because "no one understands it"

MADRID, 12 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The parliamentary spokesperson for the Popular Group, Miguel Tellado, assured this Friday that the transfer of Immigration powers to the Generalitat is a "blunder" and has called on the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, to "rethink." Furthermore, he has guaranteed that no regional president of the PP will request this transfer, as the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has done.

In an interview in La Sexta, which was reported by Europa Press, Tellado pointed out that the Socialist Party "suffers great difficulties in explaining the agreement it has reached" with Carles Puigdemont's party.

"And it has great difficulties because no one understands it, because immigration is an exclusive competence of the State, or it can be transferred to an autonomous community and much less given as compensation in exchange for the votes of the investiture to a party that maintains xenophobic positions such as is Junts", he exclaimed, adding that there is "deep concern in Spanish society" about this matter.

When asked if it reassures him that the Government says that this transfer of powers will be done within the Constitution, he assured that "in no case." "It is evident that the Sánchez Government has been in serious trouble last Wednesday and has been forced to swallow all the conditions that Mr. Puigdemont has imposed on it," he added.

Tellado has stressed that, although the parliamentary debate took place on Wednesday in Congress, the negotiations took place "outside Spain with a fugitive from Justice, who is the one in charge in Spain."

"In the end Pedro Sánchez is nothing more than the delegate of the Government in Spain but the president through an intermediary is called Carles Puigdemont and that is the obvious reality that our country is experiencing," he emphasized.

As for whether the presidents of the PP are going to claim these powers in Immigration as the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has done, Tellado has rejected it. "Evidently not. That is a mistake, immigration competence is a state competence, an exclusive competence," he stated.

According to the PP leader, what is happening is "tremendously serious" and the President of the Government "must reconsider" because "not everything works for him to continue" in La Moncloa. In his opinion, "what he has agreed to give to Junts, he should not give it to them."

"It is a huge mistake, not everything is worth staying in the government and of course the PP is going to use all the resources at our disposal, the political, the institutional, the social, to stand up to a decision that is of course a mistake. unprecedented," he said.

The PP spokesperson recalled that on the 28th his party called for a new mobilization in response to the PSOE's pacts with the independentists and pointed out that Sánchez "has bought seven votes in exchange for impunity for convicted politicians or politicians who have escaped from justice."

In his opinion, "the vast majority of Spaniards are against" these pacts, including "many of those who voted for Pedro Sánchez" in the general elections. For this reason, he has said that the PP intends to "channel this social indignation" with "a new civic and peaceful concentration in the street." "And we hope that the Government reacts, listens and reconsiders," he concluded.