PP spokesperson Borja Sémper has rejected that the resignation of the chief of staff of the Government delegate in Ceuta is sufficient to address all responsibilities following the massive entry of 70,000 immigrants into the city at the end of July. “It’s a joke that more than a month after the assault in Ceuta, only one advisor has resigned,” Sémper said during a visit to Vigo this Saturday.
Just yesterday, Gonzalo Sanz resigned as chief of staff after it was revealed that the Government Delegation was aware of warnings that a possible massive crossing of immigrants could occur. In Sémper’s view, this resignation “proves the Government’s lie” in recent weeks because someone who has acknowledged that the ministries were informed of the assault plans is leaving the position.
The PP, awaiting the progress of the judicial investigation in the National Court, believes that the massive entry into Ceuta involves shared responsibility between Morocco and the Spanish Government. The party believes that Rabat is involved in the organization “by action or omission” of the massive crossing of 70,000 immigrants, but also that the Government ignored warnings from the days prior from Spanish intelligence.
The PP spokesperson also commented on Morocco’s statement on Thursday and considered that the attacks on Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party are a result of the prospect of a political change in Spain. “The Government of Morocco knows that with Feijóo, Spain’s political position will not be the same as Pedro Sánchez’s,” he said.
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The PP warns that every time Morocco says Ceuta and Melilla or the Canary Islands are Moroccan “it is an aggression against Spain”
“Ceuta and Melilla and, of course, the Canary Islands, are not up for question. And every time the Government of Morocco or one of its ministers says that Ceuta and Melilla or the Canary Islands are Moroccan, that is an aggression against Spain, which unfortunately goes unanswered by the current government,” he warned.
Following the declassified reports last Wednesday, the national leadership of the PP has designed a communication strategy that involves avoiding “overacting” and trying to unify the message. The party assumes that much more sensitive information about what happened in Ceuta is yet to come out and that will further erode the Government.
For now, with the reports that have been declassified, which already point to the Government, the PP’s control room believes that the Government is trying to “protect itself legally” in light of the progress of the judicial investigation in the National Court. But even so, they believe there is more information to come out and, faced with this, they prefer the focus to be on the Government and to avoid “improvised” messages.
In this regard, the PP’s discourse has been forceful against Morocco and also against the Government – it has joined the case in the National Court, where no one has yet been charged nor could anyone from the Government be investigated – although without reaching the tone of Vox, which advocates breaking relations with Rabat. In fact, Santiago Abascal’s party managed yesterday to pass an initiative in the Cortes of Castilla y León, with the support of the PP, to demand that the Government break off relations.
Despite this difference in intensity, relations between the PP and Vox have strengthened with the Ceuta crisis and sources familiar with the relations between Abascal and Feijóo indicate that “contact is permanent.” Therefore, relations have tightened after months of differences during the negotiations of the regional governments.
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