An absolute majority of Spanish lawmakers on Wednesday approved a motion urging the government of socialist Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez “immediately resigns” its plans to grant amnesty to half a million illegal migrants in the country.
Sánchez announced in late January that, as part of an alliance with the nation’s far-left, his administration will grant legal residence permits to 500,000 illegal alliance provided they comply a lax list of requirements. The Spanish Prime Minister intends to grant the mass amnesty through a Royal Decree, which exempts him from needing parliamentary approval for implementation — despite a majority of Spaniards expressing opposition to Sánchez’s plans.
The Spanish newspaper El País reports that lawmakers from the the center-right People’s Party (PP), the anti-mass-migration Vox party, the Catalan political party Junts, and the conservative Navarrese People’s Union (UNP) party formed a majority that successfully approved a PP-led motion calling for the government’s to immediately stop its mass amnesty plans.