Política

The President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Isabel Perelló, has not delayed in responding to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, regarding his complaints against the judge of the National Court María Tardón for her investigations into the migration crisis in Ceuta. She has asked that the “utmost respect” be given to the decisions made by the investigating judge, who has requested several judicial reports before deciding whether to initiate a formal investigation.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has referred to Spain as a “ruined country,” in reference to the crisis in Ceuta, after stating that the massive crossing of migrants from Morocco “is sad to see.”

The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has closed the proceedings opened against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, the instructor of the Begoña Gómez case, wife of the Prime Minister, for his statements in a judicial order about the risk that national police officers, while on escort duty, could help Pedro Sánchez’s wife flee Spain.

The Moroccan authorities have informed the Government that they have opened an investigation into the mass entry of people into Ceuta at the end of July.

Fifteen years after the events, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), based in Strasbourg, condemned Spain this Thursday for having imposed prison sentences on those who blocked access to the Parliament of Catalonia on June 15, 2011.

The Ceuta crisis progresses marked by the absence of a convincing explanation of what happened on July 30. When there is no clear diagnosis of the causes, it is hardly possible to be effective in the solution and much less to prevent it from happening again. More than a month later, the Government has not provided a convincing account of the origin of the migrant surge. It could argue that it may be impossible to know who is behind the border assault, but the problem is that the Executive has issued different and contradictory versions. When that happens in crisis management, the disaster is evident.

The Chief Prosecutor of the National Court, Jesús Alonso, has informed the National Court judge María Tardón that he will take on the Ceuta case, so that he, and not the assigned prosecutor, will report on the jurisdiction and acceptance for processing of the complaint filed by an accusation, according to what La Vanguardia has learned from legal sources.

The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, avoided applauding this Thursday, as the rest of the Government bench did, in Congress when Pedro Sánchez announced that his Executive would publish the reports from the Police and Spanish intelligence about the prior warnings of the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta.

The great political debate at the start of the term moves in the realm of nuances, omissions, and calculated silences. Four weeks after the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, left the Marivent palace, assuring that Felipe VI was “committed to visiting Ceuta,” the conflicting versions between the Executive and the Royal House have placed the trip in an uncomfortable no-man’s land. Everyone assumes it will happen, but no one sets a date for a visit whose uncertainty is beginning to become a wear for Moncloa.

The junior partner of the coalition government, Sumar, has clearly distanced itself from the socialist wing and has directly pointed to Morocco, with the collaboration of the United States and Israel, as provoking the massive crossing of the Ceuta border to bring down the government and has demanded the transfer to the Peninsula of the thousands of people, particularly minors, who are still in the autonomous city.