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Murcia Assembly Enacts 2025 Budget With Vox Abstention

Lawmakers cleared a €6.725 billion budget after Vox secured a pledge to close the Santa Cruz minors center.

Overview

  • All opposition amendments were rejected as 21 PP votes together with nine Vox abstentions overrode Socialist and Mixed objections.
  • The €6.725 billion budget marks a 3.7 percent increase but eliminates social and cultural integration programs for migrants.
  • The deal bars the placement of unaccompanied migrant minors throughout the region, fulfilling a core Vox demand.
  • The vote followed a wave of anti-immigrant violence in Torre Pacheco and featured a white hood protest by a Podemos deputy alongside street rallies.
  • Opposition leaders denounced the PP-Vox pact as entrenching reactionary and xenophobic policies and urged a break with the far right.