Abascal hands out "decency" cards with the Ceuta crisis and demands a "hygienic cordon" against the PSOE from the Popular Party

Santiago Abascal has once again used the Ceuta crisis to escalate his offensive against the Government and directly pressure the Popular Party. The far-right leader now demands that the 'populars' break any understanding with the PSOE in the autonomous city and in European institutions.

"It is time for all decent parties to abandon the Government," Abascal wrote before calling for a "hygienic cordon against the mafia party in Ceuta and Brussels." The president of the far-right Vox has concluded his message by bringing back one of the threats he has been repeating in recent days: taking a petition to Parliament for Pedro Sánchez to be tried for treason.

The publication once again presents as a certainty an extremely serious accusation without specifying what conduct of the Prime Minister would fit into a crime of treason or providing evidence to support it. The initiative, moreover, depends entirely on the PP. The Constitution requires it to be promoted by at least a quarter of the Congress and then approved by an absolute majority before being transferred to the Supreme Court.

Vox attacks the Government while planting coordination

Abascal's proclamation comes after the regional leaders of the far-right Vox in Aragon, Castilla y León, and Extremadura refused to participate in the Sectoral Commission for Children and Adolescents convened to prepare the response to the situation of minors arriving in Ceuta. At that meeting, extraordinary aid of 25 million euros and prior coordination for the Sectoral Conference scheduled for August 27 were discussed.

Vox has preferred to maintain its xenophobic discourse against the migrant population and demand returns while withdrawing from the institutional spaces created to organize immediate attention. The party accuses the Government of abandoning Ceuta at the same time that its officials refuse to sit down to negotiate the resources allocated to alleviate the pressure on the city.

The offensive also reaches the Popular Party. Vox Ceuta has accused the previous Government of Mariano Rajoy of stopping the expansion of the border breakwaters "so as not to bother Morocco" and has called the popular "cowards." The message makes it clear that the demand for a "hygienic cordon" seeks to corner Feijóo and force him to follow the strategy set by Abascal.

The PP maintains specific agreements with the PSOE in the Ceuta Assembly and has coincided with the socialists in different votes in the European Parliament. Abascal intends to break these understandings and turn the Ceuta emergency into another front in his battle against Sánchez, while thousands of people remain in the city and the administrations try to coordinate their identification, care, and return with the required legal guarantees.