In Andalusia, Vox Handles Age-determination Reports Through the Institute of Legal Medicine

In Ceuta, Vox has broken with the PP's strategy by vowing to reject any mandatory redistribution of unaccompanied migrant minors, directly challenging Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government. The party, led by Santiago Abascal, cites its coalition agreements in Andalusia, Extremadura, Aragon, and Castilla y León to oppose the plan, while the PP's national leadership in Génova insists "the law will be complied with. Ceuta's ordinary capacity for such minors is 27 places, but under a declared "extraordinary migratory contingency"—in effect since August 2025, per the Ministry of Youth and Childhood—that can rise to a legal cap of 90. After at least 72,000 people swam across the maritime border with Morocco a week ago, the autonomous city says it now shelters 1,200 children and youths without families, a "2,600%" overcapacity, as PP president Juan Jesús Vivas warned on Wednesday, calling the situation "absolutely unsustainable.

Vox's move undercuts the PP's effort to blame Sánchez's executive for failing to take responsibility, including delays in registering minors to verify their status—a step that must precede the 15-day window for transfers to less strained regions under the reformed Immigration Law. Feijóo's party had reaffirmed it would "comply with the law, avoiding a clash with the PSOE, whose Carlos Cuerpo hinted the PP's obstructionist messages echo past coalition breakups with Vox. In Andalusia, Vox's vice president Manuel Gavira announced on X that "Andalusia, like the rest of governments where Vox is present, will oppose any redistribution of unaccompanied minors proposed by Sánchez's government, citing a pact signed with Juanma Moreno a month ago that includes "frontal rejection" of central migration policy and opposition "by all means" to any distribution of illegal immigrants, whether adults or minors.

Similar clauses exist in agreements in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castilla y León, where Vox also holds immigration powers, and its regional leaders have pledged to fight the plan "by land, sea, and air. The PP's leadership avoided confrontation, stressing its communities "will always comply with the law" and rejecting "the consequences of the central government's irresponsibility. Party official Alma Ezcurra demanded a "fair, well-funded, and planned" distribution.

Vox's Andalusia leader called the Ceuta events an invasion, insisting those who crossed illegally should return to Morocco, and minors, to their parents. In Andalusia, Vox handles age-determination reports through the Institute of Legal Medicine.