The Popular Party continues to express with certainty that Morocco had something to do with the massive entry into Ceuta last July. The president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, has stated that he is "convinced" that the neighboring country is "behind the blow" to the country's territorial integrity; while the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has accused him of "tolerating and sponsoring" the invasion. Likewise, the popular leader has referred to a "plan" organized by the Moroccan Government that began "with the invasion, continued with the resignation of the local population and the indolence of the rest of the Spaniards and ended with some type of cession to the neighboring country." This plan, however, has been "frustrated" by the "reaction of President Vivas and the people of Ceuta, supported by the majority of Spaniards."
More than a month after the start of the crisis, the Ceuta leader has warned that the autonomous city is in a situation of "maximum alarm for national security" and that Ceuta "is a pressure cooker that can explode at any moment"; At the same time, he has charged against the central Executive's delay in activating the single command, demanding to know the reasons why said "delay" has occurred. Along the same lines, Feijóo has once again demanded to know what the Government has transferred to Morocco and what response it has received in the face of "the images and information known to the intelligence services and the National Police" and after "the repeated questioning of the Spanishness of Ceuta and Melilla", since a crisis of this dimension "cannot be addressed with silence, ambiguity or subordination".
The opposition leader refers to the images contained in the report prepared by the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) that indicates that Moroccan gendarmes and police "guided" the assault, and to the announcement made by Pedro Sánchez in his appearance in the Congress of Deputies about the summons on August 21 to the Moroccan ambassador in Spain for "unacceptable" statements by two ministers of his country about Ceuta and Melilla. Later it was learned that the ambassador was not in our country and the meeting of the Foreign Minister took place with the chargé d'affaires. The popular leader has insisted that "Spain has to speak clearly and has to be respected before Morocco and also before the EU" and that Ceuta cannot "pay the price for the diplomatic impotence of the Government of Spain."
Both popular leaders have shared the stage at the New Economy Forum and have continued to raise the tone both against the neighboring country and with the national Executive. Vivas has based himself on "indications and convictions" to affirm that Morocco has some type of responsibility for the massive entry that occurred on July 30 and 31. There are "images of the Moroccan gendarmerie" collaborating with immigrants and which are collected in police reports, he recalled. Likewise, the president of Ceuta has pointed out that "it is a systemic attitude of Morocco, of trying to suffocate, drown, demolish and corner Ceuta and Melilla" and has maintained that Morocco "has once again used border control and migratory pressure as an instrument at the service of political ends" to put a Member State of the European Union in check. This makes the situation an "existential, state crisis" and not a "migration crisis."
Feijóo recalled the reproaches that the investiture partners leveled at Pedro Sánchez last week in the Congress of Deputies, who criticized him for the fact that a month later the emergency continues. All parliamentary groups, "from Sumar to Vox, from Esquerra to the Unión del Pueblo Navarro, without exceptions", have understood that "whoever should have led this State crisis first went on vacation and then came back from them lying," the popular leader charged. Furthermore, he has warned Sánchez of how history will remind him: "Like the president who made everyone, even his own, think the same thing in a national crisis: that he was not up to the task of his position."
A dozen regional leaders supported Feijóo and Vivas at the event, in addition to the entire PP steering committee and the parliamentary spokespersons. Juanma Moreno, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Alfonso Rueda, Fernando López Miras, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, Juan José Imbroda, Mar Vaquero, Javier de Andrés, Alejandro Fernández, Paco Núñez and Álvaro Queipo have been present. The Madrid president has taken the floor to charge against a national government that acts "in a cowardly and negligent manner" in Ceuta, where she does not "even know who enters" despite Spain being "on anti-terrorist alert for jihadism." Díaz Ayuso has also focused on what is behind the "carpet that day by day is handing over the interests of Spain to Morocco", and has warned that "the next thing could be Melilla or the Canary Islands."
Insists on the appearance of the director of the CNI
The Popular Party has been demanding from the Congress of Deputies since practically the beginning of the crisis the convening of the Official Secrets commission so that the National Intelligence Center details whether it notified the Executive about a possible massive entry into Ceuta like the one that finally occurred. Feijóo has insisted on this request this Monday, and has demanded that the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) give the pertinent explanations "without anyone having the right to prevent her" because "the Minister of Defense is not and cannot be the spokesperson for the CNI." The popular ones reiterate that they want to know "the truth" of what happened in the autonomous city, especially after the contradictory versions given by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior: the first affirms that there were warnings while the second denies it.
Welcoming immigrants at the port, an "irresponsibility"
During his speech, Feijóo also criticized the Executive's decision to temporarily host a thousand immigrants in tents in the port of Ceuta. Firstly, he has described it as an "imposition", since the decision was taken this weekend "against the criteria of the Ceuta Government and the port authority", said the president of the PP. Feijóo considers that "placing more than a thousand migrants in a port a few meters from ships that transport passengers to the continent is a great irresponsibility that, in addition, makes the work of the State Security forces and bodies difficult." At the end of this statement, he reiterated that the only possible solution for Ceuta to recover normality is the return of all the people who entered irregularly.
