Badalona mayor Xavier García Albiol has criticised €2,450 in monthly aid to a Moroccan family with six children facing eviction in Vitoria. He has made the case part of his appeal ahead of the 29 November general election.
The Vitoria home belongs to a private owner who wants it back for his own use. The family was evicted from the property in the Sansomendi neighbourhood on 23 October 2026, after a dispute that had lasted about five years. The landlord reportedly needed the home for himself and his family. He had been living in a rented room with his pregnant wife and a child after being assessed as socially and economically vulnerable. Earlier eviction moratoria had suspended the process, but it went ahead after the owner established that he had no other property and needed the dwelling as his residence. The dispute drew protests, and the Ertzaintza intervened outside the property.
The family, described in the account as Moroccan and with six minor children, receives €2,450 a month in aid, according to García Albiol. A municipal report cited by El Correo itemised the support at €2,454.18. It comprised Spain’s Ingreso Mínimo Vital, the Basque Country’s Renta de Garantía de Ingresos, a housing benefit and child supplements, alongside emergency assistance and food-bank support. The Badalona mayor called the amount excessive and argued that many people earn less through work. The account does not specify which programmes make up the payment or how eligibility is calculated.
García Albiol also alleged that the family spent the summer in Morocco. El Correo reported that the trip lasted 38 days. He criticised left-wing parties for backing the family during the dispute, and presented the case as evidence of what he says is a wider failure in Spain’s approach to assistance for people in vulnerable situations. Those are his claims. The account provides no independent breakdown of the family’s circumstances or benefits.
Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council said social services could not directly assign a municipal home to the family. It proposed temporary emergency accommodation in a social resource, which the family reportedly declined. Housing activists disputed whether that response was adequate and said the council had not offered a genuine alternative home. The family’s immediate public option was therefore emergency accommodation rather than a permanent municipal flat.
Madrid has approved a separate scheme for birth and adoption support, covered in Madrid’s grant scheme. The Vitoria report does not identify any connection between that programme and the family’s monthly aid.
García Albiol is the PP candidate for the Congress of Deputies in the general election scheduled for 29 November. He has urged voters to support his party, arguing that a change of government is needed to alter the policy he is criticising. He also claimed that people receiving aid could eventually become Spanish citizens and vote for left-wing parties.
