Feijóo activates a "single command" in the PP after the Ceuta reports and warns his barons: "We have them where we want them"

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has asked his regional presidents and the party's leadership to coordinate every intervention on the Ceuta crisis and follow the line set daily by Génova. The opposition leader wants to avoid improvisations at a moment he considers decisive to demand accountability from Pedro Sánchez's Government.

The order appears in a WhatsApp message advanced by 'El Mundo' and later confirmed by other media. Feijóo describes the publication of the documents as "a controlled demolition" of a Government that, in his opinion, can no longer stop the appearance of information from the National Police, the National Intelligence Center (CNI), and military intelligence.

"This is just the beginning and there will be more," he states in the message sent this Thursday to the barons and members of the PP's Steering Committee. Feijóo takes for granted that during the coming days new documents or testimonies will appear about the information handled by the different agencies before the massive entry of migrants on July 30 and 31.

The popular leader asks to act with "serenity and responsibility" and abandon any temptation to compete internally by hardening the discourse. "Every new piece of information confirms the seriousness of what happened. We believe this will continue to be the case, so coordination. We have them where we want them, they won't get better, and there's a lot at stake," he affirms.

The message shows that Génova considers the Ceuta crisis one of its main avenues to wear down the Executive, although Feijóo wants to manage the timing and keep the accusations under control. "This is serious", he insists before ordering territorial leaders to stick to the position set by the national leadership.

Génova expects more revelations and rules out rushing

The Government published this Wednesday 40 reports, alerts, and communications prepared during July by the CNI, the National Police, the Civil Guard, and military intelligence. The documentation confirms that there were warnings about the increase in migratory pressure and the calls disseminated on social media, but no agency anticipated the arrival of more than 70,000 people.

The CNI informed the Government Delegation and the Civil Guard on July 29 that a call for an "assault by fence and sea" was circulating and that the two groups where it was disseminated had 180,000 followers. That figure reflected the potential reach of the publications, without calculating how many people would finally go to the border. The National Police did use the expression "massive entries" and even contemplated a coordinated scenario of extreme risk, although it assigned it a medium-low probability.

Moncloa maintains that those communications did not allow for foreseeing the magnitude of the entry. The CNI itself has acknowledged that it "did not anticipate the magnitude and nature" of what happened because it was an unusual phenomenon. The PP argues that the accumulation of signals obliged the Government to adopt much more forceful preventive measures.

Feijóo believes that the political management of the documents will end up generating responsibilities within the Executive. "They are going to pay for this. There will be political responsibilities and there will be judicial responsibilities," he assures in his message, after describing the Government as a "dismembered" structure riddled with internal disputes.

Sources from the popular leadership interpret that the different versions offered by Defense, Interior, Moncloa and the Government Delegation in Ceuta reveal a competition between ministries and intermediate commands that will continue to fuel the controversy. A deputy secretary of the party has privately summarized this perception with a particularly graphic expression: "The corpse is on the table."

Génova's strategy now is to allow these contradictions to emerge and reserve new initiatives until the progress of the investigation opened by the National Court magistrate María Tardón is known. The PP has appeared as a popular prosecution, while the State and the autonomous city of Ceuta participate as injured parties.

The popular party rules out promoting a motion of no confidence for now. The PP spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has recalled that they lack the necessary support and that the PSOE's parliamentary partners have already rejected that possibility. Feijóo prefers to concentrate the pressure on the appearances, the judicial investigation and any new information that may become known.

Ayuso once again overflows Feijóo's line

The request for coordination comes after several statements by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, far from Génova's official position. The Madrid leader assured this week that, if she governed Spain, she would break relations with Morocco, a measure that the national leadership of the PP publicly rejected, considering it necessary to keep diplomatic channels open.

Popular sources indicate that Feijóo's warning seeks to prevent new "overreactions" among the regional leaders, although the Madrid leadership assures that it does not feel alluded to. A few hours after the internal message, Ayuso again raised the tone during the debate on the state of the region in the Madrid Assembly.

The president accused the Government of "complicit passivity with Morocco", maintained that Sánchez ignored previous warnings and left open the possibility that his actions could have judicial consequences. She also presented the head of the Executive as a president "blackmailed by unconfessable interests" and ended up calling all his ministers "traitors".

Ayuso's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, had already published before Feijóo's message that "Pedro Sánchez and the entire Government will be tried for treason". Génova has so far limited its judicial claims to the Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and maintains a more cautious position on the rest of the Executive.

The national leadership has reiterated to its officials that statements about Ceuta must be "measured and directed" from Génova. "Everyone has microphones and this is not the time to improvise," sources from the popular leadership have warned.