The Minister of Social Policies, Marian Orós, has criticized the government of Spain for its management of international protection programs and humanitarian aid. He has done this Wednesday during the presentation of the Municipal Plan for an intercultural coexistence 2030, a long -term strategy that seeks to strengthen social cohesion and promote coexistence among all citizens, with special attention to the migrant population. In this sense, he has stressed that the “poor management” of the central government “does not have to obscure municipal work with a very positive action plan.”
Orós has reiterated that Saragossa He is receiving people from state programs – mostly young people of Malian origin who have arrived in Spain through the Canary Islands – who are left out of the protection system after a first reception period. “Only the statute of refugee is given 18% of the people who come in international protection. The rest stays in a situation of irregularity, without papers, without housing, without language and without the possibility of being able to have a future.”
In this context, he has demanded that the central government especially reinforce the final phases of the programs, those aimed at facilitating the autonomy of the beneficiaries, and stressed that the situation is not the responsibility of the City Council. In this sense, he also expressed that from March to July, the people who are around the municipal shelter have passed from 22 to 40.
Along these lines, the counselor has denounced that the City Council has been asking the Government delegation for data on how many people arrive, in what conditions and how many remain in Zaragoza, without having yet received an answer. “We are in July, almost starting August and we have never been summoned to try to coayud,” he said, insisting that “that program and the accompaniment of these people is the responsibility of the Government of Spain.”
Orós has reiterated his willingness to collaborate with the central government, “we, hand laid,” he said, but has insisted that “the problem of origin is the disability and lack of planning that the person in charge of immigration matters has had.”
