PP and Vox return to the streets to criticize Sánchez management and demand elections

Cerca of 20,000 protesters, according to the government delegation, and 180 thousand, according to the organizers, participated in the march, which began in Cibeles Square and ended without incidents in the Arc de Triomphe, reported the EFE.

According to the Spanish news agency, protesters demanded general elections and the resignation of the socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

The Secretary-General of the People’s Party (PP), of the conservative right, Miguel Tellado, reiterated this demand, declaring to the press that it is, in his opinion, urgent to “bring down the government” and “the invaders” of Ceuta, and expressed confidence in the response of the judicial system to what he considered the “total blackness” of the Government regarding the mass crossing of migrants from Morocco in July.

On the other hand, the leader of the extreme right party Vox, Santiago Abascal, insisted on the call for the activation of Article 102 of the Constitution to investigate the Prime Minister for “treason”, a requirement also included in the march manifesto, and called again for the support of the PP to initiate the process in Congress.

Throughout the march, slogans such as “Sánchez for Prison”, “Ceuta stands firm, Spain is not for sale” and “Sánchez, traitor, defends the nation”.

The march manifesto, which was not read aloud, focused on the Ceuta crisis, demanding the militarization of the autonomous city and the expulsion of Moroccan “all invaders”.

According to EFE, the text calls for immediate elections, considering that Spain is being liquidated: “We are being robbed by a toxic alliance of stubborn separatists, heirs of terrorism, left-wing extremists who crush freedom, a gang whose lair is La Moncloa [the Prime Minister’s residence]”, reads the document.

Almost 200 civil society organizations, associations, foundations, forums, political parties and unions, according to the organizers, adhered to this second protest promoted by the platform of the former Ciudadan deputy (Citizens), Marcos de Quinto, and the co-founder of Vox, Alejo Vidal-Quadras.

At least 72,000 people illegally entered Ceuta, a Spanish city located in North Africa, on July 30 and 31.

The Prime Minister said that the government expects the situation in Ceuta to be stabilised by the end of the year and has insisted that only with temporary accommodation and registration of all people can return because this requires national and European laws.

The Spanish right-wing opposition has called on the government to immediately repatriate all those who entered Ceuta illegally in July.

The executive has also heard criticism from this opposition and other parties about the delay in responding to the crisis generated in Ceuta, whose management has been marked by exchanges of accusations also between the central government, led by the socialists, and the local, of the PP.

The government has complained about the obstacles that the city executive has placed for the provision of spaces for the reception of migrants or for the transfer of unaccompanied minors to other regions of Spain, accusing the PP of wanting to “make chronic the crisis”.

The PP and the local government deny the charges and say that Sánchez's executive refuses to assume their responsibilities.

The autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta, located in northern Africa, is a small territory of 80,000 inhabitants located in the northern end of Morocco, bathed by the Strait of Gibraltar, and is one of the two land borders between Africa and Europe, along with the other Spanish enclave of Melilla.