Overview
- The national campaign opened this week with migration re-emerging as the dominant issue after renewed crossings via the Canary route that media report as thousands of arrivals in early November.
- The government's extraordinary regularisation has produced about 1.175 million applications, with reporting that roughly 87% were admitted and some 513,029 applicants already registered in Social Security.
- Judicial and security developments have sharpened the debate: the Audiencia Nacional judge María Tardón has summoned the former Ceuta delegate to explain the July mass entry, and a Policía Nacional operation last week arrested 14 people linked to the neo‑Nazi group Núcleo Nacional.
- Two recent rail catastrophes — Adamuz (about 46 dead) and Urda (about 69 dead) — have put rail maintenance, Adif governance and long‑term financing at the top of campaign demands and party policy battles.
- Parties are staking clear contrasts: PSOE defends regularisation and integration spending, PP proposes annual reception quotas and a single authority for immigration management, and Vox calls for immediate expulsions and limits on social benefits for non‑nationals, all while services and return cooperation with origin countries remain practical constraints.