BRITISH expats have vented their anger after an activist group called on the local council of a popular Spanish city to create ‘a list of foreign residents’ who live in the area in an attempt to dissuade tourism.
One user said that the idea ‘sounds a bit fascist to me’, whilst another labelled the proposal as an example of ‘far right nationalism’ with ‘populism taking a hold even in traditionally left-leaning liberal areas’.
The demand was made on Thursday morning by the ‘Platform for the reduction of tourists in Girona’, an activist group formed by local residents who are calling for a reduction of tourist activity in the medieval walled city, located 100 km northeast of Barcelona in Catalunya.
One expat, in a post on X, described the newly-formed band of activists as a ‘small group of far-right anarchists who don’t want to pay rent and don’t have jobs’.
As part of their manifesto, the group are calling on Girona’s local council to create a census…
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