Most of the groups in Congress have shown themselves in favor of supporting the disapproval of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, requested by the PP for his management of the tragedy that occurred on June 24 at the Melilla fence, where at least 23 migrants trying to enter Spain.
During the debate on the motion for interpellation, which will be voted on tomorrow, the spokespersons for Vox, ERC, the CUP, Cs, Junts have shown their support for the popular initiative, while the PSOE and PNV have explicitly rejected it.
Sources from United We Can have told EFE that they are not going to support the motion of the popular, although they have not specified the meaning of their vote.
The "innumerable number of lies uttered" about the tragedy by Marlaska has been the argument used by the PP deputy Fernando Gutiérrez, an accusation that has also been launched by other groups. "But what can be expected from a government that never assumes responsibilities? Neither for the massive reduction in sentences for sexual offenders, nor for the design of trains that do not fit through the tunnels, nor for lying to the citizens about the circumstances of an episode as serious as that of the fence in Melilla", questioned Gutiérrez.
Despite supporting Marlaska's disapproval, many spokespersons have been critical of the PP and have recalled the Tarajal tragedy in which 15 sub-Saharan Africans died on the border nine years ago. Vox has not done it, whose deputy María Teresa López has assured that "there are plenty of reasons" for the minister to be disapproved but because what happened was "an attack on the homeland."
For the deputy of EH Bildu Bel Pozueta, both PSOE and PP "have acted in the same way", and has accused the latter of finding in these events "an excuse to wear down the Government" and not, however, requesting an investigation commission to clarify the circumstances of what happened.
EH Bildu has presented an amendment in which he also requests that the Executive resolve favorably the asylum request that a young Sudanese man who was returned to Morocco after entering Melilla on June 24 presented last December at the Spanish embassy in Rabat. While waiting to find out if the PP accepts his amendment or not, party sources assure EFE that they have not yet decided on their vote.
The case of Basir (fictitious name), who has used a mechanism provided for in the law to request international protection but which is hardly applied, has been cited by the majority of spokespersons to demand that the Government grant him asylum as soon as possible.
From the CUP they have assured that the "unethical" behavior of the PP does not exempt the PSOE and Unidas Podemos from what happened because "their Government and its ministers are directly responsible", while the ERC deputy María Carvalho has affirmed that " the minister has been denied by all god". Pilar Calvo, Junts deputy, has also stated that what happened in Melilla would mean "the immediate dismissal" of the head of the Interior "in a State of Law."
On the contrary, Mikel Legarda (PNV) has said that his group is not going to lend itself to "this parliamentary blackmail" of the PP because, in his opinion, the popular ones are taking advantage of the Melilla tragedy "to conclude the general settling of accounts" that have with the minister.
From Unidas Podemos, its spokesman Enrique Santiago, who has not explicitly ruled on the disapproval, has not given credibility to the "concern" of the PP for the right to asylum and has ordered it to process the gag law "to join a great consensus" to modify the provision on the so-called forced returns of migrants.
The deputy of the PSOE David Serrada has considered that the initiative of the PP is an "element of wear and tear on the Government that has been joined by political forces that always try to give lessons in morality" and has stressed that "their lie is not true" because in Melilla acted proportionally and "everything in accordance with the law" has been done.
