Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the Popular Party, denounced this Wednesday in Ceuta the “secret diplomacy” of Pedro Sánchez with Morocco, accused the president of “delegating” to the neighboring country “a plastic border,” and proclaimed seven commitments to Ceuta, including “expelling all illegal immigrants, and all means all, including minors.”
“We cannot act under the blackmail or threat” of Morocco, Feijóo stated, announcing that he will go to the Supreme Court to hold the Government accountable for these events. “The Government always disappears and looks for someone to blame,” he said, accusing Sánchez of hiding. “Asking for the law to be enforced is not racism,” he pointed out. “It is disgraceful that Mr. [Juan Jesús] Vivas is held responsible,” he said about the president of Ceuta, alongside whom he appeared, “while the Prime Minister is in flip-flops and swimwear.”
Feijóo, on his third visit to Ceuta since the crisis began 20 days ago with “the invasion,” he said, led by “more than 10,000 people,” stated that there have already been “15 rapes” in the city linked to the crossing.
Among his measures, a “single command” on immigration issues in the city, “because here no one knows who is in charge”. Also “infrastructure” to improve the breakwater placed by the Government “in a week, and which should have been repaired within 48 hours.”
“Minister Marlaska already said that everyone will return to Morocco, and I don’t know if the Government’s opinion changes every day,” he said regarding the EU’s request to the Spanish Government that none of those who arrived in the illegal border crossing reach the Peninsula. “At this rate, how many millions of minors could stay in Spain?” Feijóo asked.
“The Minor Protection Law is not for that. The law must be the law of return,” Feijóo stated, adding: “Morocco has said it will accept them all. We must protect our minors and Morocco theirs.”
Regarding the Government’s intention to send 400 girls who arrived from Morocco in the crossing to the Peninsula, Feijóo said: “And who protects the Spanish girls?”.
“A Spanish city has been invaded and the top officials intend to treat it as a simple summer episode,” lamented Feijóo, who denied that we are facing “a mere migratory crisis.” According to him, in Ceuta at this moment “a national security crisis, a public order crisis, and a public health crisis coexist.”
In Feijóo’s opinion, “the Prime Minister is ignoring the truth and continues on vacation at the expense of all Spaniards.”
During his speech, Feijóo listed the seven pillars of his plan to address the crisis unleashed in Ceuta: the establishment of a single command, the expulsion of all who have entered, reciprocity in relations with Morocco, the application of all means to enforce the law, guarantee the inviolability of the border, the European recognition of Ceuta and also Melilla, and the implementation of an economic reactivation plan in the autonomous city.
“We have the strength, the law, the means, and the allies. Everything is available, but the Government has not used it,” Feijóo lamented. “It’s not that it can’t be done. It’s that it doesn’t want to,” he concluded: “Spain deserves a real border, not a plastic border.”
He also stated, finally, feeling “very impressed” upon his arrival in Ceuta, “seeing the city full of people who have entered illegally, and this is something I will never forget.”
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