The discipline with which United We Can has complied with the silence decreed by the Government regarding the deadly avalanche last Friday on the Melilla border does not imply purple approval of the guideline. Although the movements against are being carried out, for the moment, with mute.
One of them has occurred in the Congress of Deputies, where United We Can has forced the Government to portray itself before the action of the Moroccan authorities at the border fence requesting that a minute of silence be observed in plenary for the victims deadly -25 according to Rabat and 37 according to the NGOs-.
"We are sure that there will be appearances at their own request, the issue is serious enough," said the purple spokesman in the Lower House, Pablo Echenique, at a press conference after the majority of the parliamentary partners have requested the appearance of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
The parliamentary spokesman has acknowledged that his formation "does not agree" with his government partner when his representatives, including the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, speak of a "violent assault" on the Melilla fence or blame what happened to the mafias "without there having been an investigation".
Asked about Irene Montero's uncomfortable silence the day before, Echenique downplayed the fact that the Minister for Equality did not respond yesterday in the Council of Ministers to questions from journalists and pointed out that "sometimes these things happen... and they don't its the first time". But, immediately afterwards, he has made it clear that the Executive must investigate this event and clarify whether there was any action by Moroccan gendarmes on Spanish soil.
"Our country cannot tolerate in an advanced democracy so many deaths on the border," he stressed, considering that it is a matter of humanity for the country to collectively express pain and mourning for these deaths at the seat of sovereignty.
For Echenique, beyond Spain's relations with Morocco "there cannot be a migratory agreement in which it is accepted as normal that people die en masse at the border. It would be unacceptable in the face of human rights."
From the socialist soul of the Executive, Defense Minister Margarita Robles has acknowledged that there are "many discrepancies" in the coalition. "I disagree on many issues with United We Can, but now there is a situation of economic crisis in this country aggravated as a result of the war and, at this time, what we have to do is work to try to provide a solution to the people who they are having a worse time".
Robles has admitted in an interview on the Ser chain that what happened in Melilla is a "human drama" that must be avoided and that, for this, it is necessary to see what the causes are. "It is not worth tearing our clothes when such a terrible event occurs, that we tear them, but it is necessary to delve deeper and give an international response in a coordinated manner," he pointed out.
Robles describes the situation in Africa as "very worrying" and focuses on the "mafias that are taking advantage of young people who want to start a new life" at a time when, due to the famine that is taking place because the grain does not arrive Together with the drought, there is an extension of jihadist terrorism in those countries in which the influence of Russia is total.
