Política

The Partido Popular has demanded this Monday the immediate mobilization of a large number of immigration technical staff to work in three shifts – “morning, afternoon, and night” – in Ceuta with the aim of speeding up the return and expulsion files of “all” immigrants who have arrived irregularly in recent weeks. The conservative leadership focuses on the immediate return to Morocco, completely rejecting any debate about the reception of minors on the peninsula: “We are talking about return, not distribution,” they state categorically.

The Public Health Commission (CSP) meeting this Monday has agreed to send up to 15,000 doses of MMR vaccine and 10,000 doses of diphtheria-tetanus, chickenpox, and polio vaccines to Ceuta “to respond to the extraordinary prevention needs of potential diseases” in the autonomous city.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has convened the National Security Council to an extraordinary meeting tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. to analyze the migratory crisis that Ceuta has been experiencing since July 30. This is the highest body to which the head of the Executive must attend in matters of national security policy direction. This meeting comes 26 days after an avalanche of nearly 80,000 migrants crossed the border to reach the autonomous city, where about 8,000 could still remain.

Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana have demanded explanations from the Ministry of the Interior this Monday for the charges carried out by the National Police against Barça fans before the match against Elche, in which ‘estelades’ were confiscated. For their part, the post-convergents have submitted a series of questions regarding this action; while the republicans demand an investigation of the facts and have requested the appearance of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

“The apartment is for sale, so goodbye fish.” Isabel Díaz Ayuso has tried to close the controversy over the purchase, for more than six million euros, of a luxury penthouse in Chamberí by a public company of the Community of Madrid and for a use that has not yet been explained. After weeks of shaping various justifications and when the arguments presented by her Government have not even convinced the president of her party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Madrid president has chosen to downplay the matter in an attempt to close the case before the start of the political season.

The political course that begins after the holiday break is crucial for Junts, both because of the possible return of its leader, former president Carles Puigdemont, and because of the 2027 municipal elections, in which the party wants to build a firewall against Aliança Catalana, whom the polls predict will see significant growth in the next electoral cycle.

It has many names: the bystander effect, the spectator effect (literally), or the Genovese effect after the widely studied murder of Kitty Genovese in 1960s New York. It is a psychological phenomenon that indicates that a person is less likely to help…

Almost a month after the “attack on Spain’s territorial integrity,” as Pedro Sánchez described what happened on July 30, when a mob managed to enter Ceuta illegally from Morocco, the Government will give explanations in Congress. Or so it is expected. Al…

Throughout this week and next, eight government ministers will appear before the Congress of Deputies to provide explanations in their respective committees about the crisis that has been experienced in Ceuta throughout the entire month of August and that still continues today. La Vanguardia, which has closely followed the conflict since it broke out on July 30, when thousands of people jumped the El Tarajal fence, has compiled a list of 30 questions that the ministers should answer in their appearances.

A group of 20 French intellectuals has promoted a manifesto addressed to Presidents Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron to request the release of Algerian journalist and opposition figure Ayoub Aïssiou, who was detained on July 25 at Barcelona airport due to a claim from his country investigating him for alleged forgery of public documents and money laundering. However, his defense denounces “political persecution” and the National Court will have to decide in the coming days whether to extradite him to Algeria.