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Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez Flees Ceuta, but Ceuta Will Haunt Him

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September 24, 2026
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While over 80,000 Africans — the vast majority of them men — scale the defenses and overrun a Spanish city, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez goes on vacation to relax.

While Muslim hordes leave a record number of rapes in the city, Sánchez crosses the Atlantic, kisses a socialist female dictator on the cheek, and goes to have breakfast with the Muslim mayor of New York.

It was at the residence of Zohran Mamdani that Sánchez began peddling lies, such as the efficiency of green energy policies — which supposedly meet 60% of the country’s energy needs today. Of course, he failed to tell his ideological allies in the room that solar and wind power plants were key factors in the voltage instability that caused the national blackout of 2025.

At another point in his speech, the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) drew applause from the audience by declaring: “Migration makes Spain stronger.” He did not specify whether he meant legal migration or the kind that has shattered public safety in Ceuta.

Sánchez delivered “gems” — not only in his words but also through non-verbal cues. He did not arrive at Mamdani’s residence wearing a Spanish flag on his lapel, but rather a round Agenda 2030 pin. It couldn’t be clearer: a man proud to represent globalism is incapable of standing up for his own homeland.

While the PSOE leadership loses touch with the reality Spain is living, voices on the Right hit the nail on the head regarding the nation’s problems and are unafraid to call a spade a spade.

This month, a parliamentary bloc comprising the European People’s Party, the European Conservatives and Reformists, Europe of Sovereign Nations, and Patriots for Europe passed a resolution in the European Parliament. The resolution identifies the Sánchez government’s plan to regularize the status of over half a million undocumented migrants this year as a “pull factor” contributing to the surge of irregular migrants into Ceuta. Furthermore, the text denounces the “invasion” of the city, warns against the “instrumentalization” of migration as a weapon of hybrid warfare, and demands urgent action from both national and European authorities.

Santiago Abascal, leader of VOX — one of the parties that backed the resolution — pointed to Morocco’s culpability regarding the entry of thousands of Africans on July 30 and 31.

In the wake of the invasion, VOX has even proposed that the European Commission immediately suspend all funding to Morocco until the situation in the autonomous city is resolved and Rabat provides sufficient guarantees that it will honor future cooperation agreements.

For her part, right-wing politician Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo pointed the finger directly at Rabat. “Morocco is promoting a silent shift in sovereignty in Ceuta: first overwhelmed, then uninhabitable, and finally, Moroccan,” she said, adding that the country uses masses of people as an instrument of war.

According to her, Morocco “uses adults as a shock force and minors [among the tens of thousands of illegal migrants] as a moral pretext. If blackmail works with 100 children, tomorrow they will try it with 1,000. Yielding does not protect the vulnerable; it incentivizes their instrumentalization.”

Compounding the international tension — which Sánchez has also sought to avoid addressing — is the scandal surrounding how he disregarded warnings from his own security forces regarding the threat to Ceuta in the days leading up to the incursion.

The National Police’s National Communications Center drafted a “communication form” referring to a “mass influx,” as reported by the newspaper El Mundo. Meanwhile, the National Intelligence Center (CNI) sent an “information memo” to both central government and Ceuta authorities, analyzing the “status of irregular migration to Spain” as of June 30.

That document stated that the Supreme Court ruling of July 8 — which banned the “summary return” (devolución en caliente) of migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to swim to Ceuta or Melilla — could have “a very significant impact on irregular entries.”

The aggression against this Spanish autonomous city acts like a massive snowball looming over the Sánchez administration, and it promises to haunt the socialist leader in the coming months. It matters not whether he goes on vacation or smiles for the cameras alongside his North American counterparts. And I hope the final wall awaits him at next year’s elections.

Yoe Suarez
Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand's international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.


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