Ceuta wants to return to July 29, when it was a normal city. And the President of the Government would like to turn the arrow of time and return to the afternoon of Saturday, August 1, when he believed that everyone who entered Ceuta had already left. "Another crisis that Pedro Sánchez resolves," certified his Minister of Transport.
Not even Ceuta will recover normality in the short term because there is no plan with guarantees to remove the irregular immigrants who have collapsed the city, nor will Pedro Sánchez be able to return to his Saturday that he believed to be glorious and ended up being the beginning of a political ruin. The errors of judgment committed by the President of the Government, who during at least three weeks of vacation rest believed that the crisis would resolve itself and that the immigrants would leave on their own, are a dead weight in his backpack. A weight that cannot be shaken off. In the plenary session of his appearance before Congress, it was clear that this crisis is different from all the others. His parliamentary loneliness was portrayed in all its splendor. Nine months away from the municipal elections and eleven months away from the general elections.
One would have to wonder how the story would have changed if the President of the Government stood before Parliament in the first week of August, announced an investigation to find out who was responsible for the attack against the territorial integrity of Spain and presented a plan to free the people of Ceuta from the nightmare. He could have done so without ceasing to enjoy his right to rest, returning immediately to La Mareta after having fulfilled his obligation.
All of Spain believed from day one that Morocco was responsible for the attack on Ceuta. Except for its president, who was full of enthusiasm and praise for the neighboring country. Four weeks until he realized that he was going nowhere with that implausible story. On Monday in the interview with Aimar Bretos I was still in that daydream. What happened from Monday to Thursday? That our colleague María Peral published in El Español a police report that recounted, black on white, a stubborn reality that Moncloa and the Ministry of the Interior had denied: Morocco's responsibility in the avalanche. Against all common sense, Pedro Sánchez wanted us to believe that 80,000 people can go to the border of a country without the police even remotely seeing them. The Ceuta crisis has turned Spanish politics upside down. Nobody was prepared for something like that.
A couple of weeks ago, deputy Carlos Aragonés, former director of President Aznar's Cabinet, wrote in La Vanguardia. "The summary question is whether the democratic regime, a group somewhat larger than its Government, is in a position to take charge of Ceuta and Melilla, hit like never before since July 30, in their desire to be European territorial brands." That is, if we would be able to treat Ceuta like Toledo, Málaga or Badajoz.
After more than a month of painful government management and after the president's appearance in Congress, the answer to the question is no. The people of Ceuta will have to wait until it is unknown when to recover their city. Ceuta is an open-air refugee camp and a set of settlements inhabited by irregular immigrants who do not fit anywhere. There is no plan for the people of Ceuta, nor is there a plan for the homeless. The left's story about the rights of the helpless is not even sustained in Ceuta.
