The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontón, has reproached the central Executive that, in her opinion, "is not up to the situation" that Ceuta is going through due to the migration crisis, and has accused PP and Vox of trying to "encourage" xenophobic attitudes.
In a statement to the media this Monday, Pontón has emphasized that the Government's action "cannot count on the support" of her organization and has expressed her concern for the thousands of affected people, who, she has denounced, find themselves in a context where "human rights" are being violated and "minimum issues of humanity" are not respected. "It is something that must be denounced and said with all clarity," she pointed out.
In this line, she has criticized that "the right and the far right" intend for the crisis to "become chronic" in order to "make partisanship" and "feed the criticisms of hate and xenophobia."
Likewise, she has lashed out at the "opportunism of the PP," which she accuses of proclaiming that "to show solidarity with Ceuta" while "does not want to be a solution" to the conflict. In her view, "any person, if they have a heart and are human, cannot look the other way when there are children in the situation they are in at this moment. And when a government has no heart, we cannot expect anything."
Regarding the role of Morocco, the nationalist leader has indicated that it is "impossible" for her to think that a displacement of thousands of people like that which occurred in Ceuta "could happen without the collaboration" of the Moroccan authorities.
Furthermore, she has added that "it is clear that we also do not know why Pedro Sánchez might want to exculpate Morocco from its responsibility in an action of this type," and has insisted that it is up to the President of the Government to clarify this point during his appearance in Congress.
The BNG distances itself from the FEMP concentrations
On the other hand, the leader of the BNG has announced that her party will not attend the concentrations called by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) in the various town halls due to the situation in Ceuta.
In her opinion, "they are really undercover concentrations called by the Popular Party to continue encouraging hate and xenophobia, using the FEMP in a partisan way."
She has also stated that this initiative highlights the use that the PP makes of this body and that "it is willing to cross all red lines in the frantic pre-campaign it has launched."