One, two and three. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Jose Manuel Albares and Margarita Robles. They are the ministers whom the Popular Party has called to appear these days in the Senate to be held accountable for their role in the crisis unleashed by the “violation of territorial integrity” in Ceuta on July 30.
None has heeded the call of the Upper House, controlled by the PP, which decided to extraordinary reactivate the commissions in which the main people responsible for the resolution of the assault and its subsequent consequences were to declare.
But the Government has chosen to give an unprecedented plan and the PP is willing to take it to court. Or, rather, to the Constitutional Court, where there will be an appeal sooner rather than later.
This Monday, the statement by the Foreign Minister was scheduled, but it did not occur. His chair was empty. Just like a week ago with the head of the Interior. Just as will happen today with the Minister of Defense. Even so, the (non-)appearance session was held, which served for their lordships from PP, Vox and Junts to harshly charge against the Government.
José Antonio Monagoa PP parliamentarian, threatened to take “legal action” due to the absence of the ministers. Sources from Genoa confirm to LA RAZÓN that the appeal for “parliamentary insubordination” of the ministers is about to fall. “Let’s go to the end”they warn.
In her account on In democracy, the Government does not choose to whom it is accountable.
Moncloa has ordered that the ministers go only to Congress, where they registered their request to appear at their own will after the opposition demanded it. But the appearances will not take place until the last week of August, almost a month after the assault on the Ceuta border.
Offensive in Congress
For the PP, there is a clear abandonment of functions by the Government in this crisis. While in the Senate it continues with a permanent summons of the ministers, in the Lower House it also moved this Monday. Was Cuca GamarraDeputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs, who was in charge of reporting on an initiative that her group registered with the National Security Commission to appoint Pedro Sánchez to lead the “single command” of the crisis.
“At this point, Sánchez no longer acts as president of the Government, but rather as a hologram that appears behind a screen, but is not capable of leading a country,” said the popular leader, referring to the images that Moncloa released hours before, in which the president appeared meeting by videoconference with some of his ministers.
The PP demands that Sánchez put an end to his vacation and comply with all of Ceuta’s demands: more police and military personnel to guarantee both the security of the city and the protection of the border and an increase in Immigration officials to ensure the return of all illegals. All.