Santiago Abascal visited Ceuta on Sunday, three days after more than 50,000 migrants irregularly entered the Spanish enclave. The Vox leader demanded a permanent military response at the border and European sanctions against Morocco.
The leader of Spain's far-right Vox party arrived in Ceuta on Sunday to outline his position on the migration crisis that has gripped the enclave since Friday. According to figures from the Interior Ministry, more than 48,000 migrants who entered irregularly have already been returned to Morocco. Santiago Abascal estimates that approximately 10,000 people remain and is demanding their "immediate" departure.
Speaking to the press, he held the Moroccan government responsible, but primarily targeted Pedro Sánchez. According to him, Rabat acted in the belief that there would be "neither response nor reprisals," the Spanish Prime Minister being, in his words, "subservient to the African country." Abascal went so far as to claim that Morocco possessed evidence of corruption involving the Spanish government, demanding that Sánchez be brought to justice and asserting that he "should be in prison." He described the events as "a brutal attack against Spanish sovereignty," noting that the crisis had resulted in 72 deaths, according to the authorities.
Fundamentally, Vox is calling for the permanent militarization of the border, coupled with a legal framework allowing the armed forces, the National Police, and the Civil Guard to intervene with the means deemed necessary. The party also demands the permanent closure of the Tarajal border crossing until Rabat provides guarantees against any similar incidents. Abascal presented these positions as based on "common sense" rather than ideological logic.
Vox also released a video showing Abascal and MEP Jorge Buxadé on the Tarajal dike, where the government has installed a containment barrier. The party denounced this measure as a "mockery" towards the Spanish people.
At the European level, Abascal welcomed the position of 22 European Union countries that have criticized Madrid's migration regularization policy. He called on Brussels to suspend the preferential agreement concluded with Morocco until Rabat respects, in his view, Spanish borders. The interior ministers of the member states are scheduled to meet on Tuesday via videoconference to examine the situation, at Spain's request. Some European officials have raised the possibility of Spain's exclusion from the Schengen Area, statements that Pedro Sánchez described as "lacking in solidarity."
Abascal also noted that Donald Trump He had mentioned the crisis, criticizing what he perceives as the weakness of Spanish immigration laws. For the Vox leader, this is not a case of "mismanagement" but of a government that "uses institutions to protect itself from investigations targeting it." With this trip, he becomes the third leader of a party represented in Parliament to visit Ceuta since the beginning of the crisis, after Sánchez on Friday and Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Saturday.
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