The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, spoke this Friday about the pact reached by the PP and Vox in Extremadura, in which both parties have introduced the principle of “national priority” for “access to all public aid, subsidies, and benefits.” “No one can be left out of a system to which they have contributed, such as, for example, the healthcare system,” she stated.
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“I believe in law and order and, therefore, I think you cannot illegally exclude anyone from requirements for which they have rights,” the Madrid president said in Brussels, after meeting with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen. Ayuso added that, in her opinion, many of these requirements “are not legal”: “I know time will put everything in its place.”
To achieve María Guardiola’s investiture in Extremadura, the Popular Party has committed to modifying the immigration law, aiming to end the prohibition of discriminating against immigrants. The agreement includes “the exclusion of access to structural social benefits and services for those in an irregular situation, limiting their access exclusively to cases of vital emergency.” This implies, according to PP sources, that immigrants will not have access to the Extremaduran basic insertion income, while it remains uncertain whether universal public healthcare will also end and foreigners’ access to healthcare will be restricted except for vital emergencies.
Sources from the Extremaduran PP emphasized to this newspaper that “access to healthcare is as established by current legislation,” but the text of the agreement is ambiguous and another section talks about improving the healthcare system to “guarantee accessible and quality care for Spaniards.” The Extremaduran Health Minister stated this Thursday, hours before the investiture pact was announced, that the regularization of migrants will strain the healthcare system.
