“This is not Morocco, this is Spain”, the first sentence of Santiago Abascal during the rally that he staged in Ceuta this Monday already anticipated the harshness of his speech. For about half an hour, the Vox leader has attacked the national government and the local government of Juan Jesús Vivas, who has been ruling Ceuta for 23 years and could lose if the polls and Vox are confirmed, from a hotel room in the Autonomous City. under the leadership of Juan Sergio Redondo, he wins the elections.
“Since we have arrived in Ceuta I have had the feeling of not being in Ceuta, it seemed that I was in Beirut”, he assured at the beginning of his speech. “I have seen Ceuta very changed in four years, I have said that it looked like Beirut, but it looked like Hernani, because I have lived this, because I know what people’s fear is, and the Vivas regime is a society without freedom, with fear We have come to restore freedom to the people of Ceuta”, he stated to the applause of a representation of nearly 200 people from Ceuta.
“Vivas is Sánchez’s man in Ceuta”, he affirmed to insist that “he is surrendered to the Moroccanization of Ceuta”. Because for Abascal the problem is not “of religions” but of “territorial and national identity”. One of the proposals of the formation in Ceuta is to secure the border by lengthening the wall, although Abascal has affirmed that “the best wall is to stop the pull effect, not give aid to those who come illegally and incorporate our army into the defense of the land borders,” he said. “The illegals to their country and the narcos: lead or jail”, he has settled.
“Ceuta is a small example of what the Spanish political model is, of what bipartisanship has brought to Spain: one and the other sharing power”, he reflected to go on to attack national policies. He has asked that “they let us educate our children” and has assured that “the cinema for two euros, the interrail financed is vote buying”, like what is happening in Melilla. “We want the power to restore freedom to the Spaniards and for us to once again be the owners of our country, of our sovereignty and of our freedom,” he settled to the standing ovation of the public, who then ran to get a selfie.
Vox obtained 35% of the votes in Ceuta in the previous elections, winning six deputies, who later stayed at four after the resignation of two due to the racist tone of the formation. Abascal has affirmed that they do not need an absolute majority, they only need to win, because if Feijóo complies with his will that the list with the most votes govern “we would achieve it that way.”
An hour before the rally, numerous agents of the National Police had been deployed in the vicinity of the Hotel Ulises de Ceuta since early afternoon. On a mild day, at 18 degrees, and in which the threat of rain materialized in just a few drops, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, arrived in the Autonomous City to offer a rally and support his candidate, Juan Sergio Redondo. Any effort is little, because the polls give the formation chances of victory. Some surveys that, if materialized, would mean the first choice of Vox Government in a community and the fall of the PP, which has been in power for 21 years under the leadership of Juan Jesús Vivas, who an hour before Abascal offered a rally at the Parador with the support of Cuca Gamarra.
But the Vox followers congregated at Ulises, in a room set up for the occasion with 160 chairs, the first with the “reserved” sign for various families. There were all kinds of audiences: from an elderly-looking heavyweight man and a T-shirt that said ‘Hams’ instead of Ramones to voters in suits with different merchandising from the national banner. Everyone had in their chair – which yodas occupied and fifty people followed the act standing – right to the flag of Vox and that of Spain to wave at the peak moments of the rally, as each of the times that Redondo spoke of the “Moroccanization process” of Ceuta, which is the backbone of his campaign.
The wait was enlivened with a piped music of just two songs: The Empire Strikes Back by Los T-shirt and Beleforón by Taburete. But the public was waiting for their candidates, which is why ten minutes before the arrival it was changed to an instrumental thread with epic touches. The volume was turned up four minutes after eight in the evening and the entire audience stood up, mobile phones in hand, to welcome Abascal and Redondo to applause and shouts of ‘President, President’. A lady in a fuchsia t-shirt and white jeans ran from her side to get a hug from the Vox leader. It is not every day that one has Santiago Abascal in his autonomous city. He returned to his place smiling and kept up the applause.
Carlos Verdejo, spokesman for Vox in the Assembly, began the rally and began with the tone against Morocco that has characterized the legislature and has caused so many controversies: “How well surrounded by good people: I don’t see any Fatima,” he said to applause. “Remember that four years ago they demonized us, they said everything and we went from 0 to six and the PP went from 13 to nine,” he analyzed before Redondo told his main lines.
Juan Sergio Redondo came out on the podium with papers that he read with pauses for applause. “Today the decent Ceuta congregates here, the one that gets up early, works, complies with the law and pays its taxes, wants security, progress, economic development and defends our sovereignty and Spanish identity,” he began, drawing applause from the public. He then thanked the presence of Abascal, who was declared persona non grata in Ceuta in 2021 by “some who have been bossing around political power for many years. Indecent Ceuta led by Moroccans, socialists, the Popular Party… who have assumed representation , who have believed they have the right to decide who is welcome and who is not in our city,” he described.
Next, Redondo has asked for a vote to carry out a task that they do not consider “impossible.” “The pressure exerted by Morocco has put Spanishness on the ropes and even the survival of Ceuta as an indissoluble element of our homeland”, he stated. “From Vox in these four years we have proposed an amendment to the entire treasonous government of Juan Vivas,” he assured to list the threats from Ceuta: “Moroccanization, insecurity and illegal immigration” that “threaten the present and the future of Ceuta.
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