The president of Melilla and leader of the PP in the autonomous city, Juan José Imbroda, has urged this Saturday that King Felipe VI travel to Ceuta and Melilla "without further delay," after the crisis experienced in Ceuta and the episodes of strong migratory pressure that both enclaves have suffered since July 30, 2026.
Imbroda has made this call through his official accounts on social networks, consulted by Europa Press, where he emphasized that "the moment" has come for the head of state to visit the two North African territories.
"I believe that the moment has already come for our King, Felipe VI, to visit Ceuta and Melilla," the Melilla leader pointed out, recalling that the previous monarchs Alfonso XIII and Juan Carlos I had already visited the autonomous cities in their time.
In this line, Imbroda pointed out that "Alfonso XIII and Juan Carlos did it before in 2007," referring to the trip that the emeritus king made to Ceuta and Melilla in November of that year, and he reiterated his request for Felipe VI to now resume that institutional presence.
"But without further delay," the president of Melilla emphasized in his message directed to the King, accompanied by a photograph with Don Felipe taken at one of the receptions held at the Palace of Zarzuela.
Imbroda's demand occurs in a context marked by the exceptional situation that Ceuta is going through, with the entry of more than 70,000 Moroccan migrants and the death of more than a hundred of them while trying to swim to the Spanish city, as well as another 1,300 arrivals recorded in Melilla in the same interval, in this case without any fatalities being counted.
The claim also coincides with the statements of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has stated that the King "wants to go to Ceuta" because "it corresponds to him" as head of state in the face of the "humanitarian, public health, and public order crisis" that the autonomous city is experiencing, demanding that Pedro Sánchez's government "authorize" that trip.