PP seeks citizenship removal for serious crimes

Spain’s Popular Party is drawing up a law to remove Spanish citizenship from immigrants who commit serious crimes, its parliamentary spokeswoman Ester Muñoz said in Madrid on Tuesday.

Muñoz called the move “logical” for people who commit what she termed delitos de sangre — literally, blood crimes. Speaking to Telemadrid, she said the party was working on the law and that removing citizenship was one of the cases it envisaged.

According to El Mundo, the measure would cover murder, repeat sexual assaults and membership of organised crime or terrorist groups.

Muñoz attacks citizenship policy

Muñoz said nationality was a country’s “most sacred” possession because it grants rights and obligations. She also pointed to the Spanish passport and its ability to let holders travel around the world.

The PP spokeswoman accused Pedro Sánchez’s government of handing out Spanish citizenship “like Panini stickers”. She claimed the government was doing so because it needed to seek votes elsewhere as fewer people in Spain voted for the Socialist Party.

Row over descendants of exiles

Her comments referred to the citizenship route for children and grandchildren of Spanish people who can prove they went into exile.

Muñoz also alleged that a 2022 instruction went against the Democratic Memory law approved by parliament. She said parliament had set out one route to Spanish citizenship: children or grandchildren of people who could show they had gone into exile.

Topics: Migration · Police · Politics

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com