They ensure in the team Juan Jesus Vivas who do not remember a more tragic situation in the city of Ceuta than the current one. Twenty days ago they suffered an invasion of more than 80,000 immigrants, according to unofficial figures, of which a hundred died at sea; and still today about 10,000 remain in the city wandering the streets without shelter, food, or direction.
In the context of the worst crisis that the autonomous city has gone through in its recent history, the president of the local government, given the absence on the ground of Pedro Sanchezhas become the main person in charge of the emergency. And, also, a target of criticism from Vox and, little by little, also from the left, which begins to give him homework and reproach him.
Until now, the Government of Spain has avoided criticizing Vivas’s actions. Among other things because Sánchez has refused to assume the “single command” which Vivas himself demanded from the first moment. Only a string of ministers have come to the city to meet him, offer a brief statement and later return to the peninsula.
This Sunday, for the first time, a member of the Executive fired against the local administration. Was Monica GarciaMinister of Health, who wanted to ignore health management when she recalled on several occasions that the responsibility for “public health” is in the hands of the autonomous city, not her department, and pointed out that if all the epidemiological tests were not being carried out on immigrants it was due to lack of spaces. With which he threw the ball to the local government.
«We need there to be a care circuit coordinated with the city of Ceutawhich is the one that has the powers in public health, the one that would have to make these epidemiological determinations in which the Ministry of Health will collaborate,” he stressed.
On the other hand, he revolted against the “alarmist” messages of the Ceuta government and criticized that linking “Immigration with illness or insecurity is not true, it is xenophobia.”
One of the main complaints of Vivas and his government team is that the risk for the Ceuta population of facing an epidemiological outbreak is greater with each passing day. And that the feeling of insecurity in the streets is total. A description that for the minister is “xenophobia” and also “racism.”
The scourge of Vox
Meanwhile, Vox has been sharing responsibility equally between Sánchez and Vivas since the beginning of the crisis. “He’s just as guilty.”he stated Juan Sergio Redondopresident of Vox in the city. In his opinion, the president of Ceuta is not doing anything to stop the crisis and has been complicit because “he has fostered the call effect that has made these invaders find the possibility of attacking” the border.
Despite the constant attack, Vox wants to govern with Vivas and yesterday offered him again “the possibility of a coalition government” to “start working on the ground, not to make appearances and complain.” Vivas remains oblivious to the attacks of each other.