Pedro Sanchez has taken a swipe at X founder Elon Musk after the billionaire shared a false theory about Spain’s latest migrants policy.
It came after the country this week announced that it will regularise some 500,000 undocumented migrants.
The policy has sparked a series of hoaxes and outlandish theories from far-right forces.
Among them is the claim that the left-wing government hopes the move will alter the census, giving them more votes at the next general election.
This has no basis in fact because foreign residents cannot vote in general elections, unless they become full citizens, which takes up to 10 years.
Despite this, on Thursday, Musk reshared a post on X from a controversial commentator touting the senseless theory.
The post read: ‘Spain just legalised 500,000 illegal aliens to ”defeat the far-right”
‘It’s not even a secret anymore. By legalising 500,000 illegals under the guise of defeating the far-right, Pedro Sanchez is essentially dropping the mask. This is electoral engineering.
‘The logic is simple: legalise half a million people, fast-track them to citizenship (which takes as little as two years for many), and you’ve effectively imported a massive, loyal voting bloc that’s indebted to the left.’
Musk shared the post writing ‘wow’, despite it being wildly inaccurate.
PM Sanchez later responded: ‘Mars can wait. Humanity can’t’, in an apparent dig at Musk’s obsession of landing on Mars.
Others blasted the original post for sharing ‘fake information.’
One fuming Spaniard said: ‘You’re a tremendous liar and ignorant. To become a Spanish citizen, you have to have lived at least 10 years since your first registration, pass an exam (which is anything but easy, by the way), know the Constitution, and speak Spanish.
‘Most of those who have been legalised are Hispanic Americans, and they certainly don’t vote for the left.’
