The general secretary of the PSOE in Melilla, Gloria Rojas Ruiz, “has totally rejected” the inclusion of Spanish cities on a map of Morocco posted on the website of the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid “as if they were part of the territory of that country”.
The socialist leader has made it clear that “it is intolerable that no one, inside or outside our borders, question our Spanishness and we are not going to tolerate it”.
The also spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Melilla Assembly stressed that “Melilla and Ceuta are and will always be an indissoluble part of the Spanish nation.”
As the number one of the local Socialists has recalled, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “makes it very clear every time he affirms that Melilla and Ceuta are Spain, period”. “They are and always will be, just like Gijón, Toledo or Málaga”, he stressed.
Gloria Rojas wanted to make it clear that the Socialists “demonstrate it with words and deeds” by highlighting that “the only Prime Ministers who have visited the autonomous cities on official trips have been those of the PSOE”.
Until now the vice president of Melilla and currently in opposition after the May elections has asserted that “it has been and is, with socialist governments, when more has been invested in both cities and when more policies and measures have been put in place to guarantee the quality of life of citizens and the present and future of our cities”.
Rojas spoke like this after the president of the Autonomous City of Melilla, Juan José Imbroda (PP), asked the Government of Spain over the weekend for “a formal protest” for the inclusion of the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on a map as part of the territory of Morocco in an image hanging in the Moroccan embassy in Madrid.
The first authority from Melilla has denounced that this action by the Maghreb diplomatic legation in Spain is an attack on the territorial integrity of the Spanish nation. “It is another hostile aggression by Morocco against Spain, placing the Spanish Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla on an official map,” stressed Imbroda, thus recalling the annexationist attempts of the Alaouite kingdom of the two Spanish cities located in North Africa.
For this reason, Imbroda has called on the Central Executive to react to this new aggression from the neighboring country by including the two aforementioned towns on its map. “I demand a formal protest from the Government”, stressed the president of Melilla, after recalling that “on September 17 Melilla will celebrate 526 years of belonging to Spain, 459 years before the independence of Morocco” in 1956.
