CIS poll tests Spain's mood after Ceuta crisis
Spain’s Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) releases its September voting barometer on Monday, its first estimate since more than 70,000 migrants from Morocco entered Ceuta on 30 and 31 July. The survey fieldwork took place in the first days of September. It will show whether the events in the autonomous city have shifted voting intentions.
The CIS does not publish its monthly barometer in August. This latest poll was carried out as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez appeared before Congress to explain the government’s handling of the Ceuta crisis.
At that appearance, Sánchez said intelligence warnings about the mass entry would be declassified. The issue has caused friction between Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Defence Minister Margarita Robles. Robles has defended the work of the National Intelligence Centre, while Marlaska has maintained that his ministry received no warning about the scale of events.
Documents released on Wednesday show that the intelligence service sent a WhatsApp warning on 29 July to the chief of staff for the government delegate in Ceuta. It flagged a social-media call for an “assault by fence and sea” on the city.
Gonzalo Sanz, the chief of staff, resigned on Friday. He said he had personally passed the information to government delegate Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, contradicting Pérez Triano’s account the previous day.
The CIS’s July barometer put the Socialist Party, PSOE, first on 33%. The People’s Party, PP, stood at 25.1%, followed by Vox on 15.3% and Sumar on 6.1%. Se Acabó la Fiesta reached 2.6%, ahead of Podemos on 2.5%.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com