Spain’s Vice President Calvo Takes Lead in Resolving Morocco Crisis

Responding to PP senator Salomé Pradas, who questioned her about government action, Carmen Calvo specified that as president of the inter-ministerial committee set up in the aftermath of the Ceuta migration crisis, it is rather she who coordinates the actions aimed at resolving the crisis with Morocco, and not the Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of Spanish diplomacy, Arancha González Laya.

The first vice-president of the government was to take advantage of the good relations she maintains with the Moroccan ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich, to advance the negotiations. But the latter was recalled by Morocco, in retaliation for the reception of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, in a hospital in Logroño.

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The inter-ministerial committee met for the first time on May 18, after the entry into Ceuta of nearly 10,000 Moroccan migrants, mostly minors. It is composed of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Territorial Policy and the Civil Service, Social Rights, Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, as well as the Director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez representing the Minister of the Interior.

Some PP political leaders accuse Laya of having mismanaged this crisis and have recently demanded her resignation from the government.