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Illa’s Sant Esteve Address Decries Far‑Right Rise, Calls for ‘Humanity’ After Badalona Eviction

He uses the Badalona dispute to press welfare protections, including housing as a right.

Overview

  • Illa warned of the far‑right’s advance across Catalonia, Spain and Europe in his recorded address from the Palau de la Generalitat.
  • His remarks were read as an implicit rebuke to Badalona’s PP mayor, Xavier García Albiol, after Illa said he had spoken to him about the eviction.
  • Following the clearance of an abandoned institute, reports say dozens remain camped under a motorway bridge and some neighbors blocked Red Cross efforts to house evacuees in a parish.
  • He defined humanity as welcoming and integrating those in need and tied it to sustaining universal public education and health care, with housing treated as a right.
  • He placed the appeal in a governance context, noting unresolved budgets and ERC’s demand that the Generalitat manage IRPF revenue to maintain parliamentary support.