The spokesperson of the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, has lashed out at the decision of the National Court to temporarily halt the implementation of a camp for immigrants at the port of Ceuta, understanding that this response to the migratory crisis facing the autonomous city should not be "stopped".
"It seems to me that when we are looking for solutions, no one should stop the solutions," he stated this Wednesday in the corridors of the Lower House, after the Plenary concluded, upon learning that the AN has ordered the Executive not to carry out the resolution that gave the green light to the installation of the camp for now.
The Government's plan involves housing around a thousand migrant people in these facilities who remain in Ceuta a month and a half after the massive entry of about 80,000 people irregularly on July 30.
In a ruling sent to the Ministry of Transport led by Óscar Puente, the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Court establishes that the resolution cannot be executed until it rules on the urgent precautionary measure requested by the Unified Police Union (SUP), which filed an appeal asking for its "immediate suspension".
The SUP appealed the resolution of Transport that authorizes the use of about 16,000 square meters of the Port of Ceuta to set up a temporary reception facility with a capacity for nearly 1,000 people, considering that it could lead to new security problems, and proposed as an alternative to resort to a "hotel-ship".
One day earlier, Minister Puente defended his commitment to install tents at the Ceuta port against the criticisms of the PP, which accused him of pushing the project forward despite the "technical and legal reports against it," as denounced by the 'popular' senator Cristina Díaz during the control session in the Senate.
Initially, the Ceuta Executive was in favor of locating the camp in the port area, but ended up rejecting it after learning of the unfavorable reports, according to what the senator stated in her dialectical confrontation with Puente.
The Minister of Transport rejected that it is an imposition and framed it in the "strict application of the law," which empowers him to authorize uses in ports not previously approved by the port authority. Furthermore, he maintained that the erection of tents does not constitute a building and, therefore, complies with current regulations.