Today marks one month since Pedro Sánchez promised the people of Ceuta in Ceuta to “guarantee tranquility and security” in the city. With Marlaska behind him wearing a summer shirt and sneakers, the Prime Minister denounced “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity,” promised to “speed up the repatriation of migrants,” and said goodbye by saying: “We are taking charge of the situation.” He then went on vacation and has not said anything since, except to recommend songs and books on TikTok.
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Sánchez has put up walls everywhere except where he should have, which was the border with Morocco, and the consequence has been a state crisis with unpredictable consequences. There are two theories about his scandalous inaction. One is that it is the result of the collapse of a political project in its final and decadent moments. The other is that it is a deliberate strategy, aimed at creating a permanent state of exception in which he can deploy his favorite weapons of social division, political confrontation, and voter fanaticism.
Perhaps the most accurate conclusion is that the state crisis in Ceuta is a consequence of the first and that the PSOE is now trying to turn it into the second. Rarely has the ineffectiveness of a government been seen so clearly as in this case, a government that is not designed to govern in an ordinary sense – analyze problems, propose reforms, approve budgets, plan long-term – but programmed for propaganda, narratives, and permanent electoral campaigning. For reasons unknown to all, Moncloa lived with the tranquility of a supposed alliance with Morocco that it believed was secure and trusted in a quick solution to the entry of immigrants. But what was expected did not happen, and there silence fell and paralysis set in.
If Sánchez has said nothing in a month, it is because the narrative factory has not found a way to turn around what the whole world was seeing. The government has tried to blame the Supreme Court, the PP, Vox, Meloni, Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, and Elon Musk, but the images were strong enough so that, this time, reality prevailed over propaganda.
One powerful voice has been the cry of the women of Ceuta. Their heartbreaking denunciation and their fight for their children, for their safety, and for their freedom have left a hesitant and self-absorbed president and ministers disarmed in their arrogance. In the survey we publish today, with its devastating data for a PSOE that now seems to have no electoral floor, there is a revealing fact: Sánchez is sinking in the female vote and is 10 points behind the PP in it.
The PSOE and Sumar are jointly losing 2.2 million votes compared to the 2023 elections, and the socialists are now closer to Vox from below (7.5 points) than to the PP from above (7.7). Sánchez accumulates a disapproval rating of 62.9% of the population and, besides women, shows terrible figures in other sectors, such as a ridiculous 17.4% voting intention among young people aged 18-29, who for whatever reason have not been seduced by TikTok videos.
Today he will speak again after his month of silence. It is unlikely that he will surpass the spectacle of Albares in Congress, with his “ultraconservative megainfluencers” and his “cognitive wars,” but he will have to be heard. What is certain is that his refusal to use all state resources in the face of the assault on a city in the country and his departure to La Mareta leaving the people of Ceuta abandoned will remain forever in the history of political infamy.
