PP to censure five ministers in Senate over Ceuta crisis

The Popular Party (PP) has announced its intention to present five censures in the Senate directed at the ministers of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Defence, Health, and Equality, due to their management of the crisis in Ceuta. This decision follows the absence of some of these ministers at a recent session of the Upper House, prompting the PP to call for parliamentary censure.

According to El Mundo, the PP is also considering the possibility of taking legal action against Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Albares, and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, who did not attend the Senate session.

PP spokesperson Alicia García has been tasked with leading this political offensive, stating that the party aims to highlight the government's management of this migration crisis. García emphasized that the Senate has become a counterbalance to what she considers the authoritarian drift of President Pedro Sánchez.

The migration crisis in Ceuta has become an increasingly concerning issue, and the PP has brought this matter to parliamentary debate, where they have already censured a total of eight ministers in the past. Infobae also reports on this censure, underlining the PP's stance on the current crisis.

For its part, 20minutos mentions that the censure aims to highlight the government's inadequate response to the crisis. The PP has stressed that the ministers have not been 'up to the circumstances' in this context.

El País adds that the censure is part of a broader strategy by the PP to challenge the government's management and consolidate its position in the Senate, where they seek to halt what they perceive as an authoritarian slide.