The Andalusian Government will have to resolve in the coming weeks a complicated political and legal dilemma derived from the drastic shift it has given to its discourse on foreign minors following its agreement with Vox. The pact that made Juanma Moreno’s investiture possible is firmly opposed to accepting the solidarity distribution of unaccompanied minors among autonomous communities. And yet, the Junta signed only two years ago a collaboration agreement with the Autonomous City of Ceuta in which both regional governments commit to mutually assist each other in case of a migratory crisis.
That agreement, signed on January 11, 2024 by the Andalusian Minister of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality, Loles López, and the head of Presidency and Governance of Ceuta, Alberto Ramón Gaitán, is valid for four years (renewable), meaning it is fully in force at present.
Its purpose is to “coordinate” actions between Ceuta and Andalusia “for the protection of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents affected by the migratory contingency,” and aims to “be an interregional cooperation instrument that allows the referral and integration of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents between the signatory parties in an agile manner and that is stable over time, while the migratory crisis affecting the City of Ceuta continues to develop.” It was then agreed that the number of minors to be transferred to Andalusia would be “that which is successively established based on the distribution criteria set out in the Response Plan approved by Agreement of the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, dated October 5, 2022.”
Precisely by virtue of that agreement signed with Ceuta, the Junta responded to a call for help from the autonomous city in July 2025 and then received about 40 immigrant minors who literally did not fit in the already saturated Ceuta facilities. At that time, there was also a context of confrontation over the distribution of minors arriving massively in the Canary Islands.
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But that collaboration model would be shattered if the literal terms of the agreement between the PP and Vox for Juanma Moreno’s investiture are applied, where it is stated that Andalusia “will oppose by all legal, judicial and political means any mechanism for the distribution of illegal immigrants, both adults and minors.” And “will not participate in regulatory reforms or budgetary agreements aimed at facilitating, financing or consolidating their entry, reception or stay in Andalusia, not enabling new centers nor creating places in existing ones, as well as reducing spending in this area to the minimum necessary.”
Sources from the second vice presidency of the Junta (in the hands of Vox) consider that the aforementioned agreement with Ceuta would have been superseded by the investiture agreement: “We appeal to the Government pact subsequent to this agreement, which is clear in everything related to immigration management,” they point out in the ministry led by Manuel Gavira.
The Andalusian Government participated last Thursday in the technical meeting held at the Ministry of Childhood, although, like other PP communities, it refused to accept that the sectoral conference on August 27 includes a point on the distribution of minors coming from Ceuta. It did give the green light to approve an extraordinary aid of 25 million euros to address the humanitarian crisis affecting minors in the autonomous city.
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