“We have nothing to hide and we act with transparency,” warned the Government spokesperson, Elma Saiz, after the Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the declassification of “all” the reports in its possession, including internal communications between different government departments, prepared from July 1 to August 1, about the massive entry of migrants that occurred in Ceuta on July 30 and 31. There are around forty documents, which will be made public tomorrow Wednesday through the Moncloa website.
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None of these reports that will now be made public affect national security, since in such cases the Government would send them to the official secrets commission of the Congress. The Executive insists that, at least for now, there is no evidence pointing to the Moroccan authorities being behind this assault on the Spanish border in the autonomous city, despite the fact that both the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, have already taken it for granted.
“Feijóo would do well to behave like a true opposition leader, like a statesman, to stand alongside the Government with responsibility and prudence, and to stop embracing conspiracy theories or misinformation,” Saiz demanded of the PP leader. “The timeframe to return Ceuta to normality and solve this crisis depends on collaboration between administrations, and being an opposition party that only puts obstacles in the way does not help the people of Ceuta at all, not at all,” she warned. “I demand that he act with responsibility and prudence, as an opposition party that must live up to what the citizens demand,” said the spokesperson minister.
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The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has been even more forceful in her criticism of the PP, calling the leaders of this party “arsonists of hatred” in the face of the humanitarian crisis in Ceuta, after an assault on the border in which 141 immigrants lost their lives. “They are fracturing coexistence throughout the country, for short-term electoral purposes,” she denounced. “The PP is feeding the far right. And although they think it gives them many votes in the short term, the consequences are brutal. You cannot do this for a handful of votes,” she warned.
The spokesperson minister, in any case, has assured that the declassification of government documents about the Ceuta crisis, for now limited to the period between the first day of July and the first of August, might not be the last. “If other documents appear, and they are relevant, they will also be shared,” she pointed out. For now, however, the Executive sees no evidence accusing the Moroccan authorities of having encouraged the assault on the border in Ceuta. But Elma Saiz repeated the same words already used last week by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, if evidence appears accusing Morocco: “If there is proof, action will be taken decisively.”
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