The migratory crisis in Ceuta continues to dominate the political debate in Spain. This Saturday, the national spokesperson of the Popular Party, Borja Sémper, appeared to attack the PSOE Government and its management of the situation, accusing it of "lying."
In a speech in Vigo, Sémper accused the Executive of "arrogance" and criticized the "absence of responsibilities" in the face of this crisis. The popular spokesperson, who has said that "it seems like a joke" that the "only political responsibility" is the resignation of the Chief of Staff of the Government Delegation in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, believes that all this is evidence that "everything that has been going on for a month is a lie."
For Sémper, the "absolute absence of assumption of responsibilities" and the "arrogance" of the central government are also demonstrated. "The official version of the Government insists, time and again, on lying to us Spaniards. This advisor who has resigned has said that the ministries were informed, and he said that he had informed. They were informed that they already had and were already aware of the plans that existed to jump the Ceuta border," said Sémper.
The San Sebastian politician has highlighted the absence of "humility and assumption of responsibilities" in which he "lives installed" in the central government. "How is it possible that, today, no minister and, of course, not the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has assumed any responsibility, has asked for forgiveness or made any minimal gesture of humility?" asks Sémper.
The PP spokesperson says that "there is no effective response or horizon of solution to the problem", but rather Pedro Sánchez "says that we must accept what happened as a structural reality." "Turn Ceuta into a CETI, accept that it is much more bearable for the Government for Ceuta residents to confine themselves at home out of fear or leave their city, than for those who entered our country irregularly to return to their country," he said.
"Why does Spain have to carry out Moroccan social policy?" asked Sémper, who defended that "Ceuta is not an entry corridor to the peninsula and, therefore, an entry corridor to the European Union."
The popular spokesperson has called for security in the autonomous city: "It cannot be that there are women who, when night comes, go into their homes out of fear," he stated, before denouncing that nearly 30 women have already filed complaints for sexual assaults, according to the data he has cited; He has also alluded to the fear of families to go to parks, beaches or even to school.
Warning to Morocco
Borja Sémper has also taken the opportunity to respond on behalf of his party to the statement from Morocco this week in which it criticized the Popular Party for its attitude in the Ceuta crisis.
The PP spokesperson considered "something truly novel that one country refers to another by pointing to the opposition. Novel, but not strange. The Government of Morocco also understands that there is going to be a political change in Spain."
Sémper has warned Morocco that with the "future PP Government" Spain's position "will not be the same as now." "We will offer collaboration, a relationship of neighborliness and understanding, but Morocco will have to know, like the rest of the countries around us, that there is no play with Spain, that Spain is not subordinated to any foreign interest, and that our position will be absolutely firm," he said.
In this sense, the PP spokesperson recalled that Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands "cannot be in question" and has reproached the central Executive for the fact that the different Moroccan claims over these territories "have not received" a response.
However, Sémper has urged Sánchez to "accept once and for all that the situation is unsustainable" and, faced with a Government that "is incapable" of "solving any problem", "dissolve the Cortes and give the Spanish the floor."
