The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has expressed his confidence in being able to resolve the Ceuta crisis before the end of 2026, a time frame that the Executive has set to implement a single command, and has described as a "hoax" that Morocco could pressure him with the material obtained from his mobile phone through the spyware software Pegasus.
"In the National Security Law we have enabled a single command and we have given ourselves a deadline by the end of the year. We hope as soon as possible to be able to resolve this crisis," he pointed out in an interview on the program 'El Intermedio' that has been reported by Europa Press.
During the conversation, Sánchez detailed that overcoming the crisis involves several lines of action: first, to strengthen border control to stop new attempts to enter, in addition to relocating migrants who remain on the beaches and in public spaces to centers, proceeding with their identification and, depending on each case, granting them protection or executing their return to their country of origin.
The head of the Executive added that it is also essential to address the socioeconomic aspect and announced that the Government plans to inject 80 million euros into the economy of Ceuta before the end of 2026. "That is the effort that the State is making in Ceuta: the humanitarian, the security at the border, and the economic revitalization of the autonomous city of Ceuta," he defended. In his view, it is a "complex" situation, although he has expressed confidence that "they will come out stronger" than before July 30.
In any case, he reiterated that the Government's intention is for the crisis to be channeled before the end of 2026, that is, within the three months remaining until the end of the year. "The deadline we have set for this single command is by the end of the year and we hope that we will have stabilized the situation by then," he emphasized.
Dismisses a blackmail from Morocco over Pegasus
At another moment in the interview, Sánchez denied that the neighboring country is exercising any kind of blackmail based on the information extracted from his mobile with Pegasus. The Executive has never officially pointed to Morocco as responsible for that cyberattack and the president has insisted that it is a "hoax" that his policy towards Rabat is conditioned by the eventual possession of personal data.
"These rumors that are spreading about the mobile or about other issues, well, maybe for a Netflix series they are fine, but reality has to be built on facts and not on rumors," he emphasized, reiterating that, for now, they do not have evidence placing the Moroccan Government behind the massive entry of migrants on July 30.
However, he has left the door open to adopting measures in the future if Morocco's involvement in that massive arrival were to be proven, which the president himself has described as an "avalanche."