Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini urge control of European borders
The arrival of thousands of migrants to Ceuta from Morocco has provoked the reaction of Marine Le Pen: “The European Union is a sieve where everyone enters!” The leader of the extreme right has riveted in a tweet: “This has to end.”
Le Pen has linked his comments to a story in the newspaper 'Le Parisien': “An unprecedented figure: at least 5,000 migrants, including at least a thousand minors, manage to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco, by swimming or on foot when the tide permitting”. The crisis with Rabat is already in the headlines of the main French radio and television news.
At the moment, the president of Reunion Nacional (RN, formerly the National Front) is not criticizing the Spanish government, preferring to direct her darts at the French authorities: “Contrary to the reassuring words of our leaders, the EU is a sieve…”
Marine Le Pen has more than two and a half million followers on Twitter and appears in first or second place in all the polls for next year's presidential elections, tied with the current President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.. Both, according to current hypotheses, would compete for El Élysée in the second round.
The current political climate dominated by the discontent of the police, confronted with a wave of attacks in difficult neighborhoods and Islamist attacks, gives wings to Le Pen's speech. Discreet during the Covid crisis, current news coincides with its agenda based on an inflexible discourse on immigration and terrorism.
For his part, Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, has also echoed the crisis in Ceuta, one more reflection of the 'in crescendo' tension between Spain and Morocco.
“Spain (with a left-wing government) deploys the Army at the borders to block illegal entry. We await news from the Ministry of the Interior…”, he expressed through his Twitter account. The Italian far-right leader, who was very harsh against migration in his time as Interior Minister, thus urges the Government of his country to imitate the measure of the Spanish Executive.