A member of the Spanish populist party VOX has accused the leftist Spanish government of increasing its immigration budget in order to demographically replace native Spaniards.
Teresa López, VOX MP for the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, accused the government of wanting to carry out a “population replacement” and a “demographic replacement” after the government increased its immigration budget by 34 per cent to €570 million.
López also noted that the government had reduced its spending on Spaniards working abroad, saying: “Article 42 of the Constitution states that the State will take special care to safeguard the economic and social rights of Spanish workers abroad and will direct its policy towards their return.”
“They bring us budgets that dedicate €510 million more to immigration than to the Spaniards who have been forced to emigrate, which is an insult to our compatriots abroad,” she added.
Addressing Secretary of State for Migration Jesús Javier Perea, López questioned why the government was increasing spending on migration while an estimated 26 per cent of Spaniards were living on the poverty threshold.