Alberto Núñez Feijóo continues to maintain a critical tone both towards Pedro Sánchez and Morocco. At an event held in Alhaurín el Grande (Málaga) alongside Juanma Moreno – with a video presence of Juan Jesús Vivas – the leader of the PP criticized the treatment Sánchez is giving to Morocco and hinted that, if he comes to power, things will change with the neighboring country. “If Sánchez wants to continue being the president who suits Morocco the most, that’s up to him and his reasons. I want to be the president who suits Spain the most,” he stated.
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In this way, Feijóo continues to harden his tone against Morocco. The leader of the PP accuses Rabat of being behind the invasion of Ceuta at the end of July, something supported by police reports, and has warned that, if he comes to power, relations with the neighboring country will be good, but based on “loyalty.” However, the leader of the PP does not go as far as Vox, which directly calls for the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador and the suspension of relations with Morocco and labels Sánchez a “traitor.”
Feijóo has been very critical of Sánchez’s appearance yesterday in Congress, as, in his opinion, it was to “say nothing” because he “doesn’t need the Senate, the media, the justice system, the Police, the Civil Guard, Ceuta, or even the King.” For the leader of the PP, after more than a month of the crisis, Sánchez “does not know the version he has to give.” “If there were warnings, if there weren’t, if there were but they weren’t written, if they were written but they weren’t sent,” Feijóo said, who ironically noted that Sánchez blamed Trump, Israel, and Elon Musk and did not mention Franco.
“The only thing Sánchez is clear about is that Morocco has nothing to do with it. At this rate, Zapatero will have a version of the jewels before Sánchez has a version of the invasion of Ceuta,” the leader of the PP joked before criticizing that Sánchez’s explanations are on the way to “sink” Spain because they weaken the CNI and the State Security Forces by denying that they issued warnings in the days prior despite the reports that have been published.
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“At this rate, Zapatero will have a version of the jewels before Sánchez has a version of the invasion of Ceuta”
“If they knew, they have to resign for being irresponsible; and if they didn’t know, they have to resign for being incapable,” Feijóo asserted, who also lashed out at Sánchez because he said the Government called the Moroccan ambassador but it later emerged that the meeting took place with other members of the diplomatic representation.
“I don’t know if the lie is worse, if the ridicule to which they subject us every day is worse, or that they sell us a diplomatic success, an alleged meeting with the chargé d’affaires when Morocco again questioned through several ministers the Spanish sovereignty of a centuries-old Spanish city,” Feijóo assessed.
A few minutes after those words from Feijóo, sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came forward to insist that the Moroccan ambassador in Spain was officially and formally summoned on August 21 “to categorically reject the statements made about Ceuta and Melilla,” although without specifying if that meeting took place. “Also to convey that those statements degrade our bilateral relationship,” the same sources added.
Feijóo also criticized the Government for talking about “humanity” with immigrants and responded. “What is theirs? Where is the humanity for the girls raped in Ceuta? Where is the humanity for the nurses who cannot attend home care because they are afraid in the streets? Where is the humanity for the families who have to gather at dusk?” asked the leader of the PP.
The leader of the PP also accused Sánchez of being a “coward” for “diverting the focus towards the King” to take him away from the Ceuta crisis. “I am not going to leave the Civil Guard, the Police, or the CNI abandoned,” Feijóo said. “We have a government that has completed the entire catalog of indecency and incompetence,” he added.
