The summer break during the month of August was going to be a breath of fresh air for Pedro Sánchez and his Executive in the face of the coming autumn, which will be especially complicated in the judicial field with the progress of pending corruption cases. But the massive entry into Ceuta and the crisis that arose afterwards has truncated the plans of a Government that receives criticism from all fronts while several of its ministers constantly try to give explanations to try to calm heated emotions. The emergency in the autonomous city has shattered the Government's expectations of having a calm summer to prepare for the start of a political course that is expected to be turbulent: in the face of a hot autumn, the summer is being scorching.
Neither the people of Ceuta nor the officials who are trying to calm the chaos that the territory is experiencing nor the opposition are going to allow the matter to be forgotten. Every day there are complaints about the management of the Executive with a trail of adjectives such as "passivity, abandonment or inaction", while Sánchez has sent up to seven of his ministers to the city to be held accountable, with few promises under his arm to improve the situation that end up being a dead letter. One of them was the commitment of the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs to return to Morocco all those who entered Ceuta illegally. However, this Wednesday the reception of 500 minors on the Peninsula was announced. Likewise, the Ministry of Youth and Children promised to send a team to care for immigrant minors and did so two weeks later.
The spokesperson of the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, charged this Wednesday against the ministerial delegation: "Ceuta does not need a parade of ministers, it needs a government that governs, a single command and that stands up to give explanations to the Spaniards." On this occasion, most of the powers fall on the head of the Executive and his ministers, not on the Ceuta administration. In front he has the opposition of the military, police, health workers, judges and neighbors.
Police and military: scabies and overcrowding
As a result of the reinforcement of the security forces ordered by the Ministry of the Interior and the conditions in which they are housed, 24 soldiers have already been infected with scabies and criticism from different associations has not been long in coming. The National Police have also warned of a first case of this disease in an agent of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), at the same time that they have been charging for weeks against the "unworthy" state of the accommodations that the different displaced units are supporting. Without air conditioning, the same room for seven or eight officers, a single toilet for 70 officers, mattresses in poor condition and overcrowding are some of the criticisms leveled by the Spanish Police Confederation. Added to this is the amount of per diem to pay for a hotel, less than 50 euros per day, or the food provided to the agents.
Health workers denounce an "unprecedented collapse"
Frontal rejection also from health workers, who denounce an overload of care while the Minister of Health, Mónica García, denies that there is a collapse. The president of the Official College of Physicians of the autonomous city, Enrique Roviralta, assured that the doctors disagree with the diagnosis made by the minister. The nurses have gone further and have filed a complaint with the Labor Inspection against Ingesa (National Institute of Health Management) for the precarious working conditions caused by the migratory emergency, which has led to an "overload" of work and a "climate of insecurity", as they reported. Likewise, the General Nursing Council (CGE) demanded this Wednesday that a state of alarm be declared in Ceuta due to the "unprecedented health collapse" reported by the professionals who work there, where they face 200 daily attendances, with peaks of up to 1,400.
Judges ask for reinforcements due to the increase in sexual crimes
The Government also does not have the judges on its side, since even the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has called for strengthening the courts, with special strengthening of the one that has jurisdiction in violence against women and sexual crimes due to the increase in the workload, especially of "matters related to alleged sexual assaults."
Families worried about going back to school
Complaints about insecurity are a constant among residents who demand that normality be restored as soon as possible. Some of them are parents concerned about the start of the school year, scheduled for September 8. Several people who entered Ceuta territory sneaked into courtyards and classrooms of educational centers, causing damage and health problems. There are many families who doubt whether the right conditions exist for back to school to start on the scheduled day.
Zapatero, sewers, Begoña...: a hectic judicial agenda
However, the President of the Government has not put an early end to his vacation even though what happened in Ceuta has crushed the Executive's desire for a summer of relaxation in the face of the complex autumn that is approaching with the progress of the judicial cases. The investigations in the Zapatero case will continue, there will also be progress in the case of the alleged PSOE sewers to destabilize judicial processes that affected the party and Sánchez's entourage as well as in the different pieces of the Koldo case such as the public works rigging that Santos Cerdán allegedly directed.
It will also be confirmed whether the judge definitively sends Begoña Gómez to the bench so that a popular jury court can decide if she is guilty of influence peddling and embezzlement of public funds. The last political course of the legislature will have a marked electoral character and one of the key points that the PP hopes to exploit in its favor is if the PSOE is definitively accused of irregular financing. A judge keeps open a secret piece about the socialist party's cash charges to its officials and employees.
