Spanish Court Rejects PP's Urgent Request for Ministers to Appear Over Ceuta Migrant Crisis in Spain

The court's vacation chamber ruled that the urgency of the parliamentary oversight was not sufficiently justified. The PP had sought the urgent appearance of the Interior, Defense, and Foreign Affairs ministers following the migrant crisis in Ceuta. Several PP senators requested the measure after the ministers failed to attend committee sessions this month, aiming to secure their presence "during the first temporarily useful week and, in any case, before the end of the current non-working period, which ends on August 31. However, the Supreme Court's vacation chamber issued an order denying the request, stating that "it is not sufficiently justified that parliamentary control (...) must necessarily take place, to be effective, within the extraordinary period of August (of which only one week remains).

The court added that "the resolution of the precautionary measure through its ordinary procedure will not be excessively delayed. The PP had also asked the judges to order the Executive to "refrain from conditioning compliance with the Senate's summons on their replacement by appearances promoted by the Government before the Congress.