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Although there is an open reflection on training, the national leadership of the PP advocates opening a debate to regulate surrogacy with the requirement that there is "in no case" any type of economic payment indirectly or directly to the surrogate mother.

Given the controversy opened by the case of Ana Obregón, who at 68 years old has become the mother of a girl by surrogacy in Miami, sources of the PP leadership defend that in the first place the law must be complied with, given that this practice is "illegal" in Spain, and then bet on opening the debate and regulating cases not mediated by the market.

The PP denounces that there are currently "legal loopholes" by which children are registered in Spanish consulates, as has been done by providing a judicial resolution of the country of origin in which the filiation of the baby is determined, a route that the Supreme Court declared null and void in 2022 when understanding that the filiation of a non-biological mother must be obtained through adoption.

The red line for the PP is the "commodification" that the party leadership considers "execrable" and what they cannot talk about. Yes, they are in favor of discussing the rest of the cases, being aware in any case that this is a delicate debate in which there are "different sensitivities".

The current leadership of the PP, in the hands of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, maintains that the commitment to open the discussion on regulating this phenomenon is consistent with the position expressed by the party in its 17th National Congress, where a debate in "depth, serious and serene" was requested.

The same sources admit that it is necessary to continue debating about it, because this is an open question within the party, where the visions prone to regulate coexist, with the voices that reject the existence of a market around motherhood and those who emphasize the economic differences between pregnant mothers and families that acquire a baby.

In the presentation of the last ideological debate of the PP, which in 2018 was led by the now senator Javier Maroto, the popular also emphasized that the debate analyzes the "reality" of children who arrive in Spain and who have been born by surrogacy in other countries, without delving into the position of the PP in this regard.

In addition, it was decided to use the term "surrogacy" and not the option of "surrogacy" to understand that it was more respectful of children in this situation, according to party sources.

In statements to journalists, the secretary general of the PP and spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has not positioned the popular in this debate and has limited herself to claiming a framework of "serene reflection" without forgetting that "there are children, who have rights that have to be guaranteed."

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