The Diplomat
The spokesman for the Socialist parliamentary group, Patxi López, said yesterday that the Government does not share “at all” the words of the former Housing Minister María Antonia Trujillo on Ceuta and Melilla. López affirmed that the government “does not doubt the Spanishness” of the autonomous cities.
At a press conference in Bilbao, López referred to the words of María Antonia Trujillo, who was a minister in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and who a few days ago defended Ceuta and Melilla as a “territorial affront to the territorial integrity of Morocco” and as “vestiges of the past that interfere in the economic and political independence of this country and in the good relations” between Spain and Morocco.
López said that, evidently, they do not share “at all” these words, and assured that it will be “his own opinion”, but that, “of course, the government does not agree in any way” with these statements. “We do not doubt the Spanishness of Ceuta and Melilla”, he emphasised.
