The PP had warned him, if he does not give explanations in the Marlaska Congress, the Prime Minister will have to do it. He said it as soon as the images and information transferred by the members of the Congress Interior Commission who traveled to Melilla to learn directly what happened and had the opportunity to see the images of the Civil Guard on the assault on the fence were known.
A week after demanding that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, give explanations, and requesting his dismissal, now the PP, after what it considers a reasonable step, has turned its gaze towards Pedro Sánchez and demands his appearance because " the terrible management of the migratory crisis demonstrates the total lack of sensitivity of the Government".
The request to appear does not have an automatic acceptance, but it is the Board and the Board of Spokespersons who have the last word. In this case, despite the fact that the PSOE, with United We Can, has a majority in the Table and blocks requests to appear on numerous occasions, the PP believes that the initiative can go ahead, given the position adopted in this case by the partners of the Government , from United We Can to EH Bildu, who have been very critical of what happened in Melilla, and there are even those who have come to ask that Marlaska stop being ministers.
The popular believe that now is when they are going to put these parties to the test, and they will see if what really worries them is the migratory tragedy that took place, and if it is true that there were migrants who died on Spanish soil and were transferred to Spanish territory. Moroccan, or if their criticisms are simply part of the campaign against Grande-Marlaska that the Basque and Catalan separatists have always maintained.
The PP justifies Sánchez's request to appear in that he has "categorically supported" the actions of Minister Marlaska, to whom he has expressed "his total confidence" and of whom he has said that "he is a great Minister of the Interior who performs and has performed his functions in strict compliance with the law".
However, the PP considers that after the latest data published on what happened at the Melilla fence on June 24, as well as the report by the Ombudsman, and the data collected by the deputies on their trip on November 7, " The lack of transparency of the Government's action in this tragedy is proven and serious doubts arise about the veracity of the words of the Minister of the Interior in Parliament" and his subsequent explanations.
For this reason, the PP requests that Sánchez appear in Congress to give these explanations about what happened at the fence, because "the sedition scandal should not cover up what happened at the Melilla fence."
