The PP has censured that the Government did not activate the single command earlier nor declared the "situation of interest for national security" due to the migratory crisis in Ceuta, and that it does so only when President Pedro Sánchez has concluded his vacation, almost a month after the massive entry of 80,000 migrants from Morocco to the autonomous city.
The spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has emphasized that her group was not informed of the call for the National Security Council, a meeting in which the Ceuta president, Juan Jesús Vivas, will also intervene telematically. "The only information we had was what all Spaniards had: that Sánchez was finishing his vacation this week," she pointed out in an interview on 'Onda Cero', reported by Europa Press.
Muñoz has recalled that, contrary to the first analysis of the Executive after the outbreak of the migratory crisis, the PP already warned that "normality" had not returned to Ceuta and that, for this reason, it was essential to deploy "extraordinary measures" that the party has been demanding since July 30, the date of the massive entry of migrants.
"Now, when Sánchez returns from vacation, now the National Security Law must be applied and there must be a single command and coordination," insisted the popular leader, emphasizing that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had already demanded both measures and that at that time he was labeled as "alarmist, racist, and xenophobic" because supposedly there was already "normality."
In her view, in Moncloa they are already "aware" of "the feeling of desertion" that the Executive has transmitted during this month regarding the situation in Ceuta. "There was no situation of normality, there was an absent Government," criticized Muñoz, who also rejected the "stream of ministers" that, in her opinion, only sought to project a "reality" different from that lived in the autonomous city.
"It is such a lamentable and disastrous image that the Government of Spain is provoking that even its own supporters find it difficult to defend them," the PP spokesperson emphasized, recalling that both Vivas and the Assembly of Ceuta, unanimously, had already demanded the single command and the application of the National Security Law.
Questioned about the appointment of the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, as the person in charge of the single command in the Ceuta crisis, Muñoz has expressed her reservations. "It is evidence of the interest that Pedro Sánchez puts into this. The logical thing is that the one who had the single command would be a minister like the one from the Interior, the Minister of Defense... People who have their own services, all the information and intelligence services," she has stated.
The PP studies forcing Sánchez's appearance in the Senate
Furthermore, Muñoz has warned that the President of the Government could end up appearing in the Senate if the Permanent Deputation of Congress rejects the request for Sánchez to provide explanations in a monographic plenary session on the migration crisis in Ceuta.
"We are going to wait for the Permanent Deputation to arrive and based on that we will decide, but we absolutely do not rule anything out," the spokesperson has pointed out, defending that the territorial chambers, "by constitutional right, have the authority to demand that members of the Government and the president appear." "The Government does not choose," she has emphasized.
Sémper's criticisms of the management and internal division of the Executive
In another interview on 'Telecinco', also reported by Europa Press, the national spokesperson and Deputy Secretary of Culture of the PP, Borja Sémper, has lashed out at a head of the Executive "who has lost contact with reality" and who is not capable of "managing the problems of the Spaniards." In his opinion, Sánchez "generally gets it right when he rectifies," valuing the establishment of the single command in Ceuta after several ministers traveled to the autonomous city "like a headless chicken" and sending "disjointed and uncoordinated" messages.
Sémper has maintained that it is up to Morocco to apply "social policy," and not Spain, also warning that the Spanish assistance system "is saturated" and cannot take in more immigrants.
"The reality is that Spain can no longer accommodate more immigrants. Therefore, what seems reasonable is that those who have entered illegally return to Morocco," the popular leader has reiterated, who has reproached the divergences between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and the Minister of Childhood, Sira Rego, on migration matters.
In his opinion, Pedro Sánchez's Executive suffers from "an internal mess" and "a lack of coordination" regarding the migration issue, with a "hot potato," that of the returns of immigrants, which "unsettles" them. "But they have to do it," he emphasized, insisting that the return of people who have illegally left Morocco "is supported by the European Union" within a "legal framework" that must be applied.