Feijóo demands that Sánchez give explanations in Congress about the intrusion of Moroccan warships in Ceuta waters

While more than 80,000 people entered Spanish territory through the Tarajal border at the end of July, Moroccan navy ships sailed through Spanish waters. This fact is of "extreme seriousness" for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has demanded that the President of the Government give explanations in the Permanent Deputation of the Congress of Deputies. The president of the PP has charged against Pedro Sánchez by defining what happened as "the negligent and unforgivable abandonment of 80,000 Spaniards by the person who had the obligation to protect them." "It is not just another scandal," he stressed.

More than a month after the massive entry, the head of the Executive appeared in the Lower House to report on the management of the events that occurred in Ceuta on July 30. However, throughout the two and a half hours of intervention, he did not say a word about the incursion of warships from the neighboring country into Spanish jurisdictional waters. In said appearance he announced the declassification of intelligence reports prior to and after the massive entry, but no document revealed the information advanced by El País this week. "The Government knew it and the president went on vacation and hid it from the Cortes Generales, the people of Ceuta and the rest of Spaniards," Feijóo summarized to insist on the request for explanations from Pedro Sánchez.

The fact that the President of the Government did not mention the naval interference in Ceuta at any time and that now the Executive, once made public, continues without clarifying why it did not report it, delves into the PP's argument about the "blackmail" of Morocco with Sánchez. For this reason, as it has been doing practically since the beginning of the crisis, Feijóo has once again established limits on relations with the neighboring country. Although he aspires to have a "good neighborly relationship" with Morocco, and has stated that he will promote it "from the first moment" if he reaches Moncloa, he has insisted that "respect and reciprocity" is necessary. "And we are going to demand it with all the necessary firmness," he stressed.