Pedro Sanchez missed his vocation as a stuntman. The man has been flirting with political danger since 2018: collusion with the most radical left which participates in his government, dubious amnesty for Catalan separatists, extreme anti-Zionism. The Spanish Prime Minister is ready to do anything to remain under the gold of the Spanish parliamentary monarchy. But this time, it seems that the tipping point has been reached by justifying the unjustifiable after the invasion of Ceuta by tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. Pedro Sanchez succeeded in bringing out hundreds of thousands of Spaniards in nearly 200 cities across the country on Wednesday evening to say stop his migration policy.
The largest crowds were in Madrid. The capital had the luxury of organizing two demonstrations: one in front of Parliament, in the presence of opposition leader Alberto Feijoo, and a second on the legendary Cibeles square, in front of the town hall, in the presence of regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso. The atmosphere is good-natured. Demonstrators are moved by the number of yellow and red flags. “It’s so beautiful, this tide”enthuses a dashing fifty-year-old. “There are as many people as when the Pope came”is surprised by another.
But completely surprisingly, around 9 p.m., riot police charged the demonstrators for no apparent reason and flash-balls and tear gas grenades were fired. The demonstrators, chased by police vans, sirens blaring, run off to shouts of “Long live Spain!” “. If the police action is questionable, the number of Madrid participants communicated by the prefecture is just as questionable. Only 50,000 people for streets full of people.
Vox progress
The next day, in Parliament, it is no longer the demonstrators who create the spectacle, but the Prime Minister, who is summoned to speak before the national representation to justify his action in the migration crisis. While the whole of Europe has understood the troubled game of the Moroccan authorities in this maritime avalanche of migrants, the Spanish Prime Minister will stick to his mantra. “Thanks to the close collaboration with the Moroccan authorities, 90% of the people who entered Ceuta left within seventy-two hours, this is one of the fastest return processes ever carried out in recent European history,” declared the head of government blandly. “In a very socially controlled country like Moroccoit is impossible that 80,000 people could cross the border without the help of the authorities”recalls Franco-Spanish lawyer Jean-Marc Sanchez, specialist in Spanish politics.
Ceuta will have acted as the revealer of the madness of Pedro Sanchez’s migration policy
If Morocco, any more than Spain according to Pedro Sanchez, has nothing to do with this migratory chaos, who is the culprit? The socialist, in an interview on Cadena SER radio, still managed to identify those responsible: “Fake media news broadcast on networks close to Russia and Israel”accompanied, of course, by “the reactionary international which seeks to divide Spain and Europe”.
However, far from the lunar declarations of its Prime Minister, the Spanish people live in reality. Ceuta will have acted as the revealer of the madness of Pedro Sanchez’s migration policy, by brutally exposing the consequences of a denial maintained for years. What the government could still present as an alarmist speech from the opposition suddenly materialized before the eyes of the country: an accelerated impoverishment of the Ceuta enclave, growing insecurity, increasing sexual assaults… If we are to believe the polls, “sanchism” may even be living its last days. The right-wing bloc is now credited with 55% of the votes in the polls. Better, Vox, the Spanish RN, would double its number of parliamentarians in the opinion surveys carried out after the Ceuta tragedy.
