Mallorca: PP leaves corruption citizenship loss unclear
In Palma on Wednesday, the People’s Party (PP) declined to say whether corruption offences would be covered by its plan to strip Spanish citizenship from people who have acquired it and then commit crimes.
Elías Bendodo, the party’s deputy secretary for regional and municipal policy, called corruption a separate matter from the proposed law. He said the PP wants tougher conditions for gaining and keeping Spanish citizenship, and would seek a legal basis for taking it away from naturalised citizens who commit crimes in Spain.
Bendodo said those arriving in Spain legally to work and integrate would be welcome under a future PP government’s migration plan. But he said people entering irregularly, or arriving to commit crimes, should be expelled.
He also attacked Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez over the situation in Ceuta, after Sánchez held the autonomous city’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, responsible for minors remaining on its streets. Bendodo said Vivas had led the crisis while accusing Sánchez of failing to do so.
The PP politician pointed to party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s Wednesday meeting with European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, which the party said aimed to find a solution for Ceuta. Bendodo also expressed support for two soldiers injured there, an incident he attributed to irregular migrants. The NGO Caminando Fronteras has counted more than 140 deaths in events in Ceuta last July.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com