The spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Parliament of Andalusia, Toni Martín, has described as “The sale of immigrant minors in exchange for the Moncloa seat” the agreement reached between the Government of Spain and Junts for the distribution of these minors among the autonomous communities, and has considered that Sánchez and Montero “They take Andalusians for fools” because "Solidarity is not about 20 immigrant minors going to Catalonia and 800 coming to Andalusia.".
In a press conference, the parliamentary spokesman considered that "Pedro Sánchez lives on his knees before a fugitive from justice who lives 2.000 kilometers from Spain and who is the one who tells him what needs to be done.". "Pedro Sánchez hasn't been the Prime Minister of Spain for a long time; Puigdemont has been the Prime Minister.", he has criticized.
Toni Martín has rejected this agreement because it means, in his opinion, "an attack on equality", since it involves a distribution “unsupportive, unfair and undemocratic”, which has also been established “without proportionality and without agreement with the autonomous communities”. “40 times more immigrant minors will come to Andalusia than to Catalonia”, he emphasized.
Similarly, he recalled that Andalusia”It is the most supportive land in Europe because it has been built with the contributions of millions of people from different cultures over centuries and millennia”, although he stressed that "Solidarity is not about 20 immigrant minors going to Catalonia and 800 coming to Andalusia.", with what this entails in terms of attention and resources that are necessary for this, he argued.
In this regard, he referred to "The 650 minors smuggled into Andalusia by the Spanish government. They came as adults, but they are minors, and now the Andalusian regional government has to care for them, without Pedro Sánchez providing a single euro for them." and regretted that such attention falls on the Andalusian Government “with lung power”. To this we must add, according to Martín, the attention to immigrants – adults – who arrive in Andalusia and which he has estimated at 1.700 or 1.800. “So let’s stop with the bullshit.”, he has said, while assuring that "We will not tolerate being taken for fools.".
Immigrant minors: imposition and swallowing it
The spokesperson for the Popular Group has defended "Orderly, supportive, sensible, and regulated immigration, but not an imposition, not a hardship of this nature.", referring to the agreement reached for the distribution of immigrant minors, which he considered to be "undemocratic because it hasn't involved the autonomous communities at any point. It hasn't even involved Catalonia, but has instead been agreed upon directly with Mr. Puigdemont.", he insisted. In response, he announced: "We will not remain passive, neither we nor the rest of Spain's autonomous communities, because this is a direct attack on all of them.".
On the other hand, Toni Martín has referred to the ruling of the Provincial Court of Seville on the ERE case known this Wednesday and has considered that it is "One more step in this process driven and originated by a complaint filed by the Popular Party more than a decade ago to clarify what is undoubtedly the largest and most serious corruption case in the history of Spain, which is the ERE, whose leaders, no matter what the PSOE wants to say, were convicted and remain convicted by the courts today.".
Today marks a step in the process that began with the complaint we filed more than 10 years ago to clarify the #CaseERE.
The biggest corruption case in the history of Spain.@toni_miglesias pic.twitter.com/XbHhlOEY4d
– PP of Andalusia (@ppandaluz) March 19, 2025
"We fully trust the justice system and maintain that the Constitutional Court, as we stated before and continue to state today following this ruling, overstepped its authority, invading functions that belonged to another court, such as the Supreme Court or the Seville Court."
"And we also believe, as we said then and we say now, that the Constitutional Court failed to take into account European regulations regarding the prosecution of crimes related to corruption and the misuse of public funds."he has argued.
On the other hand, the spokesperson referred to an initiative that the Popular Group is going to take to this week's Plenary Session in Parliament on the promotion of industrialization, which consists of 18 points and which, due to its importance, will be defended by the PPA's general secretary, Antonio Repullo, this Thursday.
