Clash between Moncloa and Juan Jesús Vivas over calls about immigration

The clash between Moncloa and Juan Jesús Vivas goes up another step.

Moncloa has released the record of nine calls exchanged with the Ceuta president's Cabinet between July 27 and 30 to refute his version before the judge of the National Court that he tried unsuccessfully to contact Pedro Sánchez's Cabinet director, Diego Rubio.

"They were all diligently attended to," Moncloa maintains: two calls were not answered by phone, but, according to his version, both were followed up a few minutes later.

The sequence begins on July 27, when Vivas's Chief of Staff conveyed to Rubio his concern about the increase in swimming crossings and requested more reception places and transfers to the Peninsula.

Moncloa assures that Rubio immediately passed the request to the competent ministries.

In that first conversation, the Government emphasizes, Vivas said that he did not need to speak with Sánchez and did not raise a national emergency or police reinforcement.

At 1:07 p.m., his Chief of Staff once again demanded measures due to the arrival of some 500 migrants and the forecast that "100 or 200 more" could arrive.

The answer, according to Moncloa, was that the ministries were already working on it.