Every time Spain suffers a humanitarian and migratory crisis on the southern border, a new front opens up between the Spanish government and the opposition. Morocco knows it well and takes advantage of this weakness.  Despite the fact that Pablo Casado called Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday taking an interest in the crisis in Ceuta and giving his full support to "guarantee the territorial integrity" of the State, this consensus has been shattered this Wednesday during the control session in Parliament, in which the crisis with Morocco has come to monopolise the face to face between the Spanish government and the opposition and not the pandemic, as was usual, and even more so after the end of the state of alarm. Although the leader of the PP extended a hand to the Spanish president, he also called on him to rectify his foreign policy and accused him of fuelling the problems with Morocco. "This was the chronicle of a crisis foretold", he said. Sánchez has accused the head of the opposition of using any "calamity" to try to "overthrow the government of Spain". "Not only is he disloyal to the [Spanish] government, but he is disloyal to the general interest of the Spanish people", the president has replied.

The total deadlock in negotiations between ERC and Junts per Catalunya, with the threat of an electoral repetition, is already felt in Madrid. It would mean the third elections in 2021 at a time when the Spanish government wanted stability to push forward reforms to overcome the coronavirus crisis. But at the same time a new call to the polls could take away the bad aftertaste of the Madrid elections with a new victory for Catalan Socialists' Party (PSC) - on 14-F it was tied in seats with the Republicans but won in votes - and some predictably bad results for Pablo Casado's PP, full of hype after the Madrid elections.

Pedro Sánchez takes sides for the first time after the Catalan elections. A day after the Moncloa down-played the fact that pro-independence parties obtained 51% of votes, the Spanish president has defended that the results indicate that the Catalans want the formation of a PSC government with the comuns. During the first control session in Parliament after 14-F, the socialist leader has put Vox and Junts per Catalunya in the same bag for feeding "expressions of hatred and xenophobia", and has bet for the next government to be "different" and "progressive", "led by the socialist party and the comuns". This is what he interprets Catalan society is asking for because he believes the results show that the only way out is "left-wing" and it includes "a reunion and dialogue within the law".