MADRID, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Popular Party has requested that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, appear urgently in Congress to explain his measures in the face of “the massive arrival” of immigrants to the Spanish coast this summer and that, in his opinion, ” will aggravate” after Algeria’s decision to suspend the Friendship Treaty with Spain due to its involvement in Western Sahara.
“The breakdown of relations with Algeria will aggravate the problem and Marlaska continues with his arms crossed, without foresight and without establishing a special plan,” assured the PP’s national secretary of the Interior, Ana Vázquez.
For this reason, he has summoned Marlaska to offer information to Parliament about his plans. “Urgent appearance to explain the measures that will be carried out in the face of the massive arrival of immigrants to the Spanish coast during the summer,” reads the letter that the PP has registered in Congress.
Apart from the rise in the price of gas, it is feared that the passage of Algeria could cause an increase in irregular immigration from that country. This Thursday, more than a hundred immigrants arrived on the Balearic coast on board six small boats from Algeria.
Last Wednesday, the PP already demanded the urgent appearance in the Congress of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, shortly after the president of Algeria, Abdelmayid Tebune, announced the “immediate” suspension of the friendship treaty signed with Spain almost two decades ago in retaliation for its “unjustifiable” support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
‘The ‘popular’ consider that the head of the Spanish Diplomacy must offer explanations before this step by Algeria, which he considers “very bad news” and that they blame Sánchez’s “lurches” after reaffirming his turn on the Sahara in the debate held last Wednesday in the plenary session of Congress.
The PP considers that the Government must offer explanations after “the inexplicable diplomatic swerve given by Pedro Sánchez regarding the Maghreb” and “the humiliating consequences it is having for Spain.”
In addition, the PP believes that Sánchez should “clarify whether the private information stolen from his official cell phone conditioned his erratic behavior in this case,” according to the PP’s deputy secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons.
