Melilla Senator Accuses Morocco of Hindering Border Trade, Urges EU Focus

"Morocco is not there to applaud us or make our lives easier. No, it makes it difficult for us and will continue to make it difficult. It wants to annoy us. Let’s (Melilla) drop it," Imbroda said before a hundred deputies, at a meeting organized in the autonomous city with the national president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. To counter this attitude of Morocco, the PP leader of Melilla asks to "turn to the North, towards Europe", recalling that he had already made this proposal in 2017, well before the closure of the commercial customs by Morocco.

For Imbroda, "looking to the North is also looking at Andalusia, a community with which my government has signed an agreement to develop Melilla and which it has kept in a drawer for four years." The candidate for the presidency of Melilla, a position he had held from 2000 to 2019, also demanded a greater presence of the State in Melilla. "Let the second flag of the Legion come. Why won’t it come? Let the old one be replaced..." he launched to the applause of the audience.

In the same vein, Imbroda asked King Felipe VI to make a visit to Melilla. "King Juan Carlos has already come (in 2007) and the current king must also come, but we must make it easier for him by having political and social stability after the May 28 elections," he specified, reiterating his willingness to commission an audit of the management of the current Executive of Melilla led by Eduardo de Castro (Ciudadanos) that he suspects of corruption. "Melilla is a 100% Spanish city, which belongs to Europe and needs European support," he concluded.