Overview

• The PP’s Declaration of Murcia advances a points-visa that favors applicants for hard-to-fill jobs, familiarity with Spanish culture, and cooperation from origin countries.
• Juanma Moreno said knowledge of Spanish "could be" required to obtain residence, arguing it is essential for work and integration.
• The framework pairs the visa with zero tolerance for crime, proposing automatic loss of residency for serious offenses and disqualification for repeat minor offenses.
• Party leaders say the details will be studied in October using Canada and Australia as references, though those systems do not include cultural or nationality criteria as proposed.
• Senior ministers criticized the plan for linking migration with crime and called it unconstitutional, and CEAR warned cultural or language filters risk discriminatory implementation.