The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, believes that the King “wants to go to Ceuta” because “it is his duty” as head of state in the face of the “humanitarian, public health, and public order crisis” currently unfolding in the autonomous city. For this reason, he has asked Pedro Sánchez’s government to “authorize” this visit. In response, the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, accused the PP and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of having become the country’s “biggest spreader of fake news” and warned that Pedro Sánchez’s government “has governed, governs, and will continue to govern,” while the ‘populars’ “have lied, lie, and will continue lying.” The first vice president and Minister of Economy, Trade, and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, will travel to Ceuta next week to address the economic situation and consider support measures. According to sources from the Ministry of Economy, Cuerpo will hold working meetings with the autonomous city’s government, business associations, social agents, and companies. The goal, these sources add, is to “deepen support for Ceuta, not only from a humanitarian and security perspective but also economically.”
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Health summons autonomous communities this Monday to send vaccines to Ceuta
A delegation from the Ministry of Health, led by the Secretary of State for Health and president of the National Institute of Health Management, Javier Padilla, will visit Ceuta next week to assess the impact of the migration crisis on the University Hospital and Primary Care services of the autonomous city. The exact date of the visit has not yet been set.
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The PSOE accuses the PP of being the “biggest spreader of fake news” in the country
The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, accused the PP and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Saturday of having become the country’s “biggest spreader of fake news” and warned that Pedro Sánchez’s government “has governed, governs, and will continue to govern,” while the ‘populars’ “have lied, lie, and will continue lying.”
In statements sent to the media, López emphasized that, from the “first minute” of the legislature, the right wing has tried to install the idea that the government was incapable of pushing initiatives forward and forming sufficient majorities in Parliament, which, in his view, portrayed a government and Congress as “inactive” and “empty of content.”
Against this approach, the socialist leader cited as an example the appearances scheduled next week in Congress, “in the middle of August,” of seven ministers to explain the situation in Ceuta. In his view, these appearances constitute “another exercise of explanations and transparency by this government.” (EP)
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Women and minor migrants, some sick, on wet mattresses in Ceuta: “This is a shame, they are vulnerable people”
“This is madness, a shame, a joke. It rained and the camp got wet, the tents fell down. We have women and girls, there are sick people, and no one attends to us. They are vulnerable people!” denounces Hafida Musfata Tami. This resident of the Príncipe neighborhood in Ceuta has been voluntarily helping migrant women and girls since the massive influx on July 30 so they are not left to their fate on the streets. She moves around the sports court of the Príncipe Alfonso neighborhood like a lizard, wearing a yellow vest, giving instructions to girls lying on mattresses who get up in a hurry. In the background, a persistent chant in Dariya, a dialect of Arabic spoken in Morocco, is heard: “We want a roof, we want our rights,” shout about thirty girls, many teenagers, some with their arms raised, accompanying their demand with claps. “Journalists, you only come when things are fine, record this,” she asks.
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The Supreme Court rejects forcing ministers to appear in the Senate in August as requested by the PP over the Ceuta crisis
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The Supreme Court has rejected forcing the government ministers to appear in the Senate in August, as requested by the PP over the Ceuta crisis. The party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo had asked the high court to, before ruling on the substance of their appeal — that is, whether the government can choose when to appear before the Cortes — order as an urgent precautionary measure — without hearing the State Attorney representing the government — the summons of several ministers in the Upper Chamber, where the populars have a majority. The court has declined to rule immediately and has given the government 10 days to submit its arguments. Once the judges receive them, they will rule.
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Cuerpo will travel to Ceuta next week to address the economic situation
The first vice president and Minister of Economy, Trade, and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, will travel to Ceuta next week to address the economic situation and consider support measures. According to sources from the Ministry of Economy, Cuerpo will hold working meetings with the autonomous city’s government, business associations, social agents, and companies. The goal, these sources add, is to “deepen support for Ceuta, not only from a humanitarian and security perspective but also economically.”
Cuerpo has been participating in coordination meetings organized by the government on the Ceuta migration crisis. In the one held last Monday, August 17, the reinforcement of security in the autonomous city and the care of immigrants still remaining there after the massive influx at the end of July were analyzed again. Measures necessary to continue strengthening the security and welfare guarantees of the Ceuta population were also studied. (EP)
Feijóo believes the King “wants to go to Ceuta” because “it is his duty” and asks the government to “authorize” it
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, believes that the King “wants to go to Ceuta” because “it is his duty” as head of state in the face of the “humanitarian, public health, and public order crisis” currently unfolding in the autonomous city. For this reason, he has asked Pedro Sánchez’s government to “authorize” this visit. In an interview with Europa Press, Feijóo thanked Felipe VI for the “gesture” of receiving the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, at the Marivent Palace (Palma) in early August, who made “very eloquent” statements pointing out that the monarch desires this visit and will make it “when the government considers and accepts this trip.”
Feijóo indicated that, within his constitutional powers, Felipe VI is “guarantor of Spain’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” “I am convinced that the King wants to go to Ceuta and will do so when the Spanish government authorizes this trip,” he added. When asked if he believes the government should authorize this visit at this time, he confessed that if he were president, “he would announce that the King of Spain will go to Ceuta,” but added that, as leader of the opposition, he does not have “all the data” and there are “many unknowns” about the massive entry of more than 70,000 illegal migrants on July 30 and 31. (EP)
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The government prepares an economic plan to revitalize Ceuta after the migration crisis
The government seems very aware that the Ceuta crisis has opened a significant credibility gap. All the government’s efforts this summer, which initially focused on the severe fires in July, have concentrated on trying to provide a solution to a humanitarian crisis that is far from resolved, with thousands of immigrants still on the streets of the autonomous city, and trying to return to normality.
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Good morning. The government is working on an economic reactivation plan for Ceuta, the amount of which is not yet finalized and aims to address the impact of the crisis on sectors such as commerce and tourism. Among the initial estimates the government is handling are at least 15 million euros to reactivate commerce, through tax cuts, reductions in Social Security contributions, and direct aid to compensate for lost profits during the crisis period, according to the newspaper El País this Saturday.
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