Política

One month before the Catalan elections that brought him to power, the then PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, presented his plans for when he would take the reins of the Govern at a crowded conference. There he promised to lead the “third great transformation of Catalonia” through good management, to recover excellence in public services and leave behind “a lost decade” in the ideological battle of the procés. Yesterday, the president revisited that conference with a track record of two years of management that few approve of, but which he strove to present as successful. At the same time, he warned of those times when Catalonia was presented as the “project of a part” and of “a world heading towards a worrying dehumanization” in which “extremely divisive and confrontational politics” predominates.

The former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has requested the National Court to exclude from the judicial proceedings against him a police report with a new lead on another possible influence peddling in favor of the Peruvian company Gloria, which would have paid the socialist 200,000 euros through the company Focus Social Research.

The Central Electoral Board has chosen not to open a new front with the Supreme Court and, after a little more than two hours of an extraordinary meeting, has agreed to comply with the high court’s mandate regarding nationalizations obtained under the so-called grandchildren law. The body, however, has not adopted the Supreme Court’s criterion as its own and has not evaluated whether the people who have obtained nationality through this route and have been incorporated into the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) have done so correctly or whether, on the contrary, their registrations should be suspended.

The PP believes that the situation in Ceuta “has worsened,” just as a month and a half has passed since the massive entry of more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco. The Popular Party denounces that responsibilities have yet to be clarified as only “two technicians” have resigned from their positions – the chief of staff of the Government delegate in Ceuta and a National Security press officer – and they warn that they will “Europeanize” the problem.

The judge of the National Court María Tardón has requested the investigation opened in an ordinary court regarding the Government delegate in Ceuta to incorporate it into the case she is leading for an alleged crime against the territorial integrity of Spain, among others, due to the massive entry of nearly 80,000 people from Morocco on July 30 and 31.

The migration crisis in Ceuta at the end of July, which shows no sign of ending, has significantly impacted the electoral expectations of the main parties competing in a general election, according to the September barometer from the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) released this Monday, the first since the massive entry of immigrants into the autonomous city.

My teachers used to say that a single day in Moncloa is a human week. Imagine the first seven prime ministers of democracy: Adolfo Suárez, who was in office for 1,697 actual days (4 years, 7 months, and 23 days), equivalent to 32 and a half years of work behind him dismantling…

In the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Ceuta, some unsettling movements on wheels catch the eye. Besides the immigrants wandering back and forth and the military all-terrain vehicles patrolling the avenues, many Piaggio Porters – compact classic vans for small deliveries – rush through the narrow and steep streets. They look like taxis, going back and forth. On Saturday at noon, they lined up in a row at a roundabout in Loma Colmenar to access some construction material warehouses. They arrive, load – cement, mortar, plasterboard, gypsum boards, or bricks – and leave. And they come back for more.

Journalists tell me that they continue reporting from Ceuta a month and a half later and that the situation in the city is still “tremendous” and that they end every day “with their stomachs upset.” They tell me that it is true that every day there are fewer people “lying” in the streets, because…

The decision of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to declassify communications between police forces, intelligence agencies, and institutions with warnings about the Ceuta crisis has opened several scenarios, some more predictable than others. For now, the Executive has exposed the activity of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), causing great discomfort within the secret services. It has led to the first resignation, that of the chief of staff of the Government delegate in the autonomous city, and has prompted a criminal investigation into the massive entry of between 70,000 and 80,000 people from Morocco between July 30 and 31.