The national spokesperson of the PP, Borja Sémper, criticized this Monday the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for "exonerating outright" Morocco when, as he pointed out, 80,000 people cannot move through a territory on their way to the border without that country knowing it. In contrast, he reproached that the head of the Executive has pointed to Israel, Russia, and a "far-right international" as responsible for the massive entry of migrants recorded at the end of July in Ceuta.
"He only lacked blaming Franco," Sémper exclaimed, after Sánchez emphasized—in an interview on "cadena SER"—that there is "no information" linking Morocco to the origin of the crisis in Ceuta and dismissed that there were data from the State Security Forces or Intelligence Services that raised "any doubt" about Rabat's involvement in the influx of migrants.
In a press conference at the national headquarters of the PP, after the meeting of the steering committee chaired by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Sémper highlighted that a month later they can "verify" that Sánchez shows "enormous diplomatic delicacy" with Morocco and, at the same time, "surprising harshness" with the people of Ceuta.
An "impossible to justify" narrative
"The president of the Government says that his Government is investigating what has happened but already exonerates Morocco outright and accuses a far-right international of what happened," denounced the PP leader, to emphasize that these statements demonstrate that Sánchez lives in "a permanent narrative" but that on this occasion "the narrative is impossible to justify" with what citizens observe and "is leaking."
In this context, he insisted that there is also responsibility from Rabat in this crisis. "Does anyone believe that 80,000 people can move through a country and enter another country illegally without the country of origin knowing?" he asked, adding: "Does anyone believe that the intelligence services of a country, in this case ours, do not detect that 80,000 people are moving through a neighboring country with the intention of jumping and entering our country irregularly?".
Sémper has criticized that they point to "Russia, Elon Musk, Israel, the hoaxes, the fake news, and the far-right international" as guilty. "This conspiracy should worry all Spaniards. And in any case, obviously there are responsibilities," he stated when asked about the responsibility that the PP attributes to Morocco regarding what happened on July 30 and 31.
In this line, he warned that the "permanent externalization of blame is starting to become a caricature of the Government itself," given that, he said, "in the face of every failure, a culprit, a conspiracy, a hoax, or a dark force appears" to justify the problem.
"The Government remains entrenched in a lamentable fiction"
The PP's deputy secretary has emphasized that, a month after the crisis, "the situation has worsened" and insisted that the Executive "remains entrenched in a lamentable fiction" and "is completely overwhelmed by its ineffectiveness." In his view, responsibilities "cannot be dissolved among contradictory versions, administrative silences, and presidential vacations."
The also deputy secretary of Culture and Sports of the PP believes that today they have witnessed "the dress rehearsal of the narrative" that the president of the Government will offer this Thursday in Congress. "Sánchez will probably try to turn Thursday's appearance into another exercise in propaganda. But there is something that no longer depends on his narrative: what citizens are seeing through the media and that justice will also investigate," he warned.
After sending a message of support and encouragement to the Ceutí people a month after the massive entry of immigrants, he pointed out that Spaniards already knew that for Sánchez "there are first and second-class citizens depending on what he needs to stay in power." Nevertheless, he stressed that "the Ceutí people have discovered this summer what it means to be treated as if you were third-class."
"We have a huge, elephantine Government when it comes to collecting, regulating, and telling citizens how they should live; but a Government that becomes tiny when it comes time to do what it is required to govern: protect its borders, guarantee order, and defend its citizens," he recounted.
The PP presents itself as a popular accusation
The deputy secretary of the PP has pointed out that, if Ceuta elected 49 deputies instead of one, the Government would not have waited a month "to activate the levers of the State?" nor would they have seen the president leave for vacation.
Finally, the national spokesperson of the PP has confirmed that the Popular Party has already appeared as a popular accusation in the judicial procedure opened for the events that occurred in Ceuta, as Feijóo announced last Saturday.