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Sumar Breaks with Socialists, Blames Morocco, Israel and the US for Ceuta Crisis and

Sumar Breaks with Socialists, Blames Morocco, Israel and the US for Ceuta Crisis and

Sumar's Enrique Santiago and Aina Vidal accused Morocco, Israel and the United States of coordinating the late-July mass border crossing at Ceuta to bring down…

Spain's junior coalition partner Sumar has drawn the sharpest political line yet inside the governing alliance: not only does it disagree with the Socialists on how to respond, it holds three foreign powers responsible for the crisis that left thousands of people, most of them minors, stranded in Ceuta. --- THE CONTEXT --- At the end of July, thousands of people crossed the Ceuta border in what authorities described as a mass crossing. A police report referenced in the parliamentary session describes the passivity or active guidance of Moroccan agents during the crossing. EPM has previously reported on the unanswered questions surrounding Moroccan involvement and the political pressure building inside the coalition. --- THE FACTS --- Sumar spokesperson Enrique Santiago, of Izquierda Unida, described the late-July events as an «operation» by Morocco «in coordination with Israel and the United States» with «political and geostrategic implications». Aina Vidal, of Comuns, identified those same three powers as sharing a «common interest» in bringing down the Government and «democracy». Vidal connected the current vulnerability to the Government's 2022 decision to abandon support for Western Sahara self-determination in favour of Morocco's autonomy plan for the former Spanish colony. She called the resulting «appeasement policy» a failure. Both Sumar representatives rejected the return of migrants to Morocco as an «impossible solution» and demanded their transfer to the Spanish mainland. Vidal challenged PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to use his influence over PP-governed regional presidents, who are refusing to take in the minors. Santiago and Vidal also accused PP and Vox of stoking hatred against migrants and named Vox MP José María Figaredo, who at the height of the crisis called for migrants to be «hunted». --- THE POSITIONS --- Sumar speaks with one voice on foreign policy blame and on the humanitarian solution. Neither the Socialist Party nor the Moroccan, Israeli or US governments have publicly responded to Sumar's coordination accusation as recorded in the source. PP and Vox have not accepted the proposal to transfer minors to mainland regions under their control. --- WHAT REMAINS UNKNOWN --- The police report on Moroccan agents' conduct has not been published in full. No official response from Morocco, Israel or the United States is recorded in the source. The Socialist wing of the coalition has not issued a differentiated public position on the trilateral accusation. --- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS --- • Does Sumar hold classified or declassified evidence beyond the referenced police report to substantiate the coordination claim against three foreign powers? • What position does the Socialist Party, as the majority partner, take on its coalition ally's direct accusations against Morocco, Israel and the United States? • Are there legal mechanisms that would compel PP-governed autonomous communities to accept minors transferred from Ceuta? • What are the concrete living conditions of the minors still held in Ceuta, and who is responsible for their care? --- EPM ANALYSIS --- The human cost of the impasse is most visible in the minors still stranded in Ceuta, used as a political variable by every party. Sumar's geopolitical framing may be bold but it shifts focus from the immediate obligation to protect those children. 📌 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, Sumar's trilateral accusation is the most consequential political statement to emerge from the Ceuta crisis so far, precisely because it forces the Government to either validate or repudiate it publicly. The children stranded in Ceuta are a concrete, solvable problem that the parliamentary argument is obscuring. PP-governed regions' refusal to accept transfers is a political choice, not a logistical constraint, and it deserves to be named as such. Spain's coalition is governing through a crisis it cannot agree on how to define.
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