This November 10 marks a year since the Ceuta people placed their trust in VOX to defend the interests of the city in the Cortes Generales and during these twelve months the two parliamentarians of the formation have not given up in their efforts to do so. More than 700 registered questions, fifty requests for information and more than thirty non-law proposals, is the balance of part of the activity that both the deputy, Teresa López, and the senator, Yolanda Merelo, have carried out during this time.
With 11,738 votes, 29.83% of the total cast, VOX's candidacy for Ceuta was the one that obtained the most support, snatching the seats for the city from the PSOE that it had won in the general elections in April. At that time, the representatives of VOX were very clear that the objective was to begin to give a real voice to the Ceuta and take their problems to the Cortes Generales without the restrictions that, until that moment, had been imposed by other national formations.
Faced with the blank page that the socialist parliamentarians who had been elected in April left as a curriculum of their passage through Congress and Senate, the representatives of VOX have not left a question in the inkwell. The Covid-19 pandemic and its management in Ceuta has been the main cause of the questions registered in these first months of the legislature. And, just a few weeks after the government was formed, the coronavirus spread throughout the country, becoming the protagonist of political activity.
Deputy and senator have reiterated to the Government of Sánchez and Iglesias the need to have more means of protection against Covid-19 in areas such as health, but also between the Security Forces and the Armed Forces. López and Merelo have denounced the effect called for immigration of socialist policies and have warned of the exorbitant spending that this has meant for territories such as Ceuta, where several million euros have come out of the municipal coffers to attend to immigrants from the that the Government of the Nation has not taken over.
Both the Congress and the Senate have held the national Executive accountable for its inaction in the face of the situation in Ceuta with respect to Morocco, which tries to suffocate the economy of the two autonomous cities at the same time that it does not respect their territorial waters and does not comply the agreement to repatriate Moroccan minors who are in Spain.
"Never before, since Ceuta gave its trust to VOX a year ago, have the city's problems been heard so many times in Congress and in the Senate, ”says López. The deputy underlines how "through the responses that the Government has been giving" to her questions and those of the senator "We have seen how, for example, it gives in to pressure from Morocco, How its employment policy involves including a percentage of MENA in the Employment Plan when our economy is the one that never leaves a state of alarm, or as it has no intention of protecting Ceuta through population screening against Covid-19 , which has been one of his last answers ”.
"Both Senator Yolanda Merelo, as I, do not give up in our efforts to continue putting on the table all matters relating to Ceuta, seeing that the Government delegate also has no intention of solving the problems of the city, since she accepts without to complain about the impositions of a government that is based on the votes of separatists and heirs of ETA, ”says López. However, he warns that, while the Executive of Sánchez and his delegate look the other way, the members of VOX "will continue to defend and propose all those measures that, for the good of Ceuta and the people of Ceuta, are necessary."
Finally, López emphasizes that "Ceuta people know that, having placed their trust in VOX, their interests will always be represented." "We will always insist on providing solutions to the multiple economic, health, or educational problems, among others, that not only have caused the pandemic but that have been creeping in for many years and to which no government has provided a solution," he says.
For his part, Merelo points out that "during this short but intense period of parliamentary activity", Ceuta has been the "reference" of his work in the Senate. "The Ceuta problem in terms of security, border issues, territorial waters, health and economy have been the most important issues during this period," recalls the senator to add: "VOX has always been with the Ceuta problem, but especially during the health crisis in which we have defended the need for more means of protection, more tests, more personnel and infrastructures, and less confinement ”, Merelo points out. The objective is to continue in that line and that from Madrid they meet, once and for all, the needs of the Ceuta.
