First there were the "no visits" of King Felipe VI to Ceuta and Melilla this summer. The two autonomous cities were the only territories excluded from his ‘tour’ across the country after the worst months of the pandemic. Then, the absence of the monarch in the ceremony for the delivery of offices to the new class of judges that was held in Barcelona on September 25. And both are unequivocal signs, for VOX, that the social-communist government wants to set the king's agenda so as not to upset neither his pro-independence partners nor his “neighbor and friend” Morocco.

The party has already warned him about the controversy of the visit that was not officially confirmed but that was banished from the king's agenda to the autonomous cities. However, both the national deputy of VOX for Ceuta, Teresa López, and the senator, Yolanda Merelo, asked the Executive of Pedro Sánchez about it to say why he had “stopped” the visit of Their Majesties the Kings to Ceuta and also if he considered that this was "defending the rights of the autonomous cities."

Now, the Government has limited itself to giving a brief and empty answer in which it denies the largest. "In relation to the question asked, it should be noted that there is no record that the visits of the SSMM los Reyes to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla were scheduled by the Royal House," says the Executive, who has given the same answer to the deputy and the senator.

After receiving the reply, López criticizes that "the Government hides the shame imposed on it by its partner from Podemos in two lines in which it humiliates Ceuta and Melilla again, making it believe that the king did not have between his visits to the two autonomous cities" . For the Ceuta parliamentarian, in addition, this is "one more attempt to devalue the monarchy in its role as a symbol of unity of the Spanish nation."

For his part, Merelo regrets that, once again, "the Government shows who directs its agenda in relations with Morocco." "On the one hand, from the communist part of the Government, the figure of the king is distorted and, on the other hand, it gives in to the demands of the King of Morocco on the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla", warns the senator.



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