Sánchez defends himself from the attacks of PP and Vox: "I may be a 'dog' but I have no master"

MadridA few hours before the Spanish government declassifies the reports on Ceuta, Pedro Sánchez has defended himself against attacks from the PP and Vox in Congress over the management of the migration crisis. "We have nothing to hide," the Spanish Prime Minister defended during the first control session after the summer break. Sánchez has assured that his executive "does not accept blackmail from any party, any country, or any power." "I may be a dog, but I have no master," retorted the socialist leader, referring to the moniker Perro Sanxe.Both Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal attacked him over the situation in the autonomous city, warning that the ballot boxes "will make him pay" for having "left his country unprotected." "If Morocco sings, you're gone," stated the PP leader, who described the Spanish president as a political leader whose "freedom is conditioned by the fact that many people continue to remain silent." Along the same lines, the president of Vox said that "Spain cannot continue to be a Moroccan protectorate," to which Sánchez replied by pointing out the ties of the Spanish far-right to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. "If anyone is on a leash, it's you," he stated in reference to the United States and Israel.

Gabriel Rufián, spokesperson for ERC, also brought up how the PSOE will continue to govern for the remainder of the legislature. The republican warned Sánchez of the danger that would be posed if the PP and Vox were to exceed 200 seats, as recent polls have suggested. Rufián thus questioned the Spanish president's prediction that he will "win again" against the right at the polls. "How will he do it? With whom will he join forces, if you'll pardon the pun? The numbers don't add up for me, and my mouth hurts from saying it," lamented the ERC leader in Madrid who, in the corridors of Congress, also stated that he "expects nothing" from the declassification of documents regarding Ceuta.

The open fronts

Ceuta has not been the only front opened for Sánchez during the control session in Congress. Rufián has reproached, for example, the lack of action regarding housing and the right has also attacked him over cases of alleged corruption surrounding the PSOE. Feijóo referred to the judicial statement this Wednesday by the PSOE manager, Ana María Fuertes, as a suspect in the case at the National Court regarding the party's financing. The "freedom" of Sánchez, the popular leader argued, also depends on her and other people who are in the judicial crosshairs, such as the former minister José Luis Ábalos or the former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Furthermore, the setback from the Supreme Court regarding the so-called 'grandchildren law' has been one of the demands made by the PP and Vox. Feijóo has stressed that Sánchez has only been "intent on manipulating the census" and has also mentioned the decline in the educational level reflected by the results of the PISA report, published this Tuesday. The Spanish president reproached him for "mixing one thing with another in a self-serving manner".