Far-Right Vox Party Opposes Moroccan Transit Operation in Melilla, Suggests Tax

In a statement published on Sunday, the far-right party explained that Operation Marhaba, which takes place every summer season, does not solve any problem in the autonomous city and does not benefit Spain, whose "subsidized boats, highways, medical, social and religious services and border ports and crossings are collapsing".

"We wonder why this insistence on having to let Operation Marhaba pass through Melilla when from the ports of the peninsula, one can easily connect to those of Morocco, particularly Nador," adds the statement signed by Javier Diego, secretary of Vox Melilla, considering that this "continuous transit of Moroccans" only "generates expenses for the strengthening of the State’s security forces and bodies, health personnel, translators, in infrastructure for the stay of vehicles".

For the party, all these huge expenses "affect the public administration and the taxes paid by all citizens". In addition, there is the monstrous traffic jam recorded in the city and the congestion of the port area, which "prevents" the inhabitants of Melilla from traveling under good conditions, notes Diego, assuring that Operation Marhaba "does not benefit the city at all unless the competent authorities impose a municipal tax for the passage of vehicles in transit from Europe to Morocco.