Unable to move on from the Ceuta crisis – now compounded by the failure of the operation to clear the Trampolín beach and relocate all immigrants to the port of the autonomous city – the PSOE is at least trying to dispel the specter that this will be their electoral grave. Its Secretary of Organization, Rebeca Torró, fired shots at the PP this Saturday. She targeted Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Juan Jesús Vivas, holding them directly responsible for wanting to prolong a crisis that has trapped the government of Pedro Sánchez. She even accused them of wanting to “cash in” on the drama.
From Alicante, where she led the opening of the PSPV-PSOE political conference alongside Diana Morant, Torró launched an attack against the populars, intensifying the socialists’ offensive to try to show that if there is still no solution for Ceuta, it is the PP’s fault. The escalation of the clash also comes just before both governments sit down to negotiate new locations for the immigrants.
“They don’t see people,” Torró said referring to the thousands of immigrants still wandering the streets of Ceuta. “They dehumanize them as just another opportunity to attack the Government,” she added.
According to Torró, the Ceuta president “has gone from pulling the cart alongside the Government to putting sticks in its wheels.” “This is the truth,” Torró insisted, emulating Sánchez by pointing out that “to know why Ceuta refuses to transfer minors to the Peninsula to speed up the return to normality, you have to ask Vivas.”
It was not the only criticism of Vivas by the PSOE Secretary of Organization, who even accused him of “cashing in” by giving “five million by direct award to relatives of trusted officials,” referring to contracts for managing the reception of minors. “While we think about how to move the country forward, they think about how to move the PP forward and cash in,” Torró concluded. “We saw it in Valencia with the dana, with Ayuso with the masks, and in Ceuta with Vivas.”
But Torró did not stop there. After suggesting that Vivas has a political interest in hindering the situation in Ceuta, she directly pointed at the PP leader. “Feijóo is a bad virus that has infected Spanish politics and its leaders,” she said, implying that Vivas only obeys orders from his party’s president.
“The PP is about putting a problem to every solution and their go-to response is always the same: call elections. They don’t know how to do anything else,” lamented the socialist leader, who then referred to the so-called grandchildren’s law. This is the other major setback for Sánchez at the start of this term, after the Supreme Court provisionally suspended the voting rights of those who obtained Spanish nationality through the grandchildren’s law, unless they prove they are descendants of exiles.
“There is nothing to celebrate in thousands of Spaniards seeing their right to vote cut,” said the socialist leader, who did not hesitate to suggest the Supreme Court’s alignment with the right to serve their interests. Again, the PSOE resorts to the thesis of the politicization of judges: the ruling “bears the signature of a magistrate who whispered to Feijóo that he wanted to see him as president.”
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“The danger was not, is not, and will not be voting,” Torró emphasized. “The danger is that the vote is endangered. That is a direct threat to our democracy,” she concluded, calling on the left to “defend democracy from those who seek to overthrow it.”
Tellado: “Sánchez is indecent and cowardly”
The PP believes that all the criticism the PSOE makes is part of a headlong rush to once again install the framework of “the fascists against the progressives,” and not talk about the “disastrous” management that, in their view, Pedro Sánchez is making of the Ceuta crisis. This was stated by Miguel Tellado, secretary general of the populars, at the PP Intermunicipal meeting in Seville, held in the town of Utrera.
Sánchez is “indecent and cowardly” and “behaves more like a puppet of the Moroccan regime than as a ruler of a European democracy,” he even said. For Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s number two, the head of the Executive has been “exposed” with Thursday’s vote in the European Parliament, since PSOE MEPs did not support the PP resolution in favor of Ceuta. Although it should be remembered that this text harshly criticizes the Spanish Government and that is why the socialists did not support it.
In any case, Tellado accused Sánchez of “abandoning” Ceuta in the face of “an invasion of more than 80,000 people” and of “disloyalty to the people of Ceuta, to President Vivas, and to all of Spain.” “He has intended for Ceuta to be just another piece in the museum of horrors” he will leave behind, he said.
Regarding the tents set up in the port of the autonomous city, Tellado pointed out that “the only possible transfer is 100% of the invaders to their countries of origin.”
For the PP number two, Sánchez “stopped being a burden to our country a long time ago and became a danger to Spain.” “It’s not that he does nothing good for Spain, it’s that the little he does goes directly against the general interest,” he emphasized.
