Sánchez proposes to appear on September 9 in Congress for the Ceuta crisis

Pedro Sánchez will appear in Congress to explain the management of the Ceuta crisis. This has been confirmed by Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy of the Spanish government, in an interview on Cadena SER. This Wednesday morning, the Spanish government will register the president's request to appear before the chamber and will thus respond to a demand that has been coming from various political groups for days. Sánchez's appearance does not yet have a date, although he proposes that it be next September 9. The day will be decided by the chamber's board once the official request has been registered.

Ángel Víctor Torres also supported the version of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, after the clash that occurred yesterday between him and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles. The two ministers got tangled up about the role of the CNI in the migratory crisis and about whether or not Interior and the Delegation had been informed of a massive arrival of people in Ceuta.

The Minister of Territorial Policy defended Marlaska's statements and assured that there was evidence of an increase in immigrant entries in Ceuta, but no information about an arrival of tens of thousands of people: "Every day the situation is reported. There had been an increase of about 1,000 people in seven days, in no case of the arrival that occurred," he explained, and assured that the Minister of the Interior's response had been "clear." "If we had been aware of it, the action would have been different automatically," he explained.

For his part, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has called for the "immediate" convocation of the Official Secrets Commission in view of the conflicting versions from the Interior and Defense ministries regarding the role of the CNI. In a message on X, the leader of the Popular Party assured that, "given this mess of versions about what happened in Ceuta, the immediate convocation" of the aforementioned commission becomes essential.

Almost a month after the entry into Ceuta, neither the Spanish government nor the autonomous city know how many immigrants or how many minors remain unidentified. At the moment, there are 1,400 registered minors, a figure that is expected to be higher. Torres emphasized the importance of respecting legality and acknowledged that there are also no definitive data on processed asylum or expulsion files. He referred to his appearance tomorrow in Congress to explain this information.