Spain’s far-right Vox party is preparing another parliamentary push on the migration crisis in Ceuta, the Moroccan city under Spanish control. According to Spanish media reports, the party plans to bring a new motion before the Congress of Deputies next Wednesday, seeking tougher migration measures alongside a direct challenge to the foundations of Spanish-Moroccan relations.
The proposal calls for a full audit of the exceptional costs Spanish authorities have incurred since thousands of migrants entered Ceuta last July, along with faster deportation procedures for those who crossed into Spain irregularly. The move follows an urgent parliamentary question Vox lodged with Spain’s Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, over the government’s handling of the crisis.
Unaccompanied foreign minors sit at the heart of the initiative. Vox wants to halt their transfer to other Spanish regions and instead have them returned to their families or to guardianship institutions in their countries of origin, invoking the 2007 bilateral agreement between Madrid and Rabat on preventing, protecting and coordinating the repatriation of migrant minors.
The party’s ambitions extend well beyond migration management, however. The motion explicitly demands the suspension of the friendship, good-neighborliness and cooperation treaty binding Spain and Morocco, while also pressing Rabat to cooperate more fully in taking back Moroccan nationals slated for deportation. Should it pass, such a step would represent a significant rupture in a bilateral framework built over nearly two decades.
The renewed push comes just days after the Congress of Deputies rejected an earlier Vox initiative focused specifically on the unaccompanied minors in Ceuta, which failed to secure enough support. Undeterred, the far-right party is keeping migration and the status of foreign minors at the top of the Spanish parliamentary agenda.
By reviving the file, Vox is once again placing the Ceuta crisis, migration policy and the future of Madrid-Rabat relations at the center of Spanish political debate — a terrain where tensions over the occupied city’s status and migration cooperation continue to resurface as election-season leverage.
