{"id":219260,"date":"2026-09-08T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/219260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:00:20","slug":"most-spaniards-unhappy-with-govt-handled-ceuta-crisis-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/219260\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Spaniards unhappy with gov’t handled Ceuta crisis, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly nine in 10 Spaniards blame Morocco for the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta<\/a> in late July, while a majority rate Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s handling of the crisis as “bad” or “very bad,” according to an opinion poll released on Monday that also showed a drop in support for Sanchez’s party.<\/p>\n

The 40dB poll of 2,000 people for El Pais newspaper and radio station SER also recorded an increase in voting intentions for the conservatives and the anti-immigration, far-right Vox party, in line with several other polls conducted after the deadly border surge into Spain’s North African enclave.<\/p>\n

For 89% of respondents, Morocco bore the most responsibility for the crisis<\/a>, followed by human-trafficking groups (75%), the spread of disinformation on social media (74%), the migrants who decided to cross (73%) and the Spanish government (72%), the 40dB poll found.<\/p>\n

Only 14.2% rated Sanchez’s handling of the crisis positively, with two-thirds of those surveyed saying his response was too slow.<\/p>\n

The combined voting intentions for the conservative People’s Party and Vox hit 50.2%, leading their potential right-wing alliance to breach the 50% mark for the first time in an opinion poll during this legislature. The center-left bloc fell to 36.1%.<\/p>\n

The PP rose to 32.4%, from 32% in the previous 40dB poll in July, and Vox to 17.8% from 17.2%, while Sanchez’s<\/a> Socialist Party dipped to 27.6% from 28%.<\/p>\n

About 27% of respondents named Vox as the most capable party on the issue of immigration, ahead of the Socialists at 18.4% and the PP at 13.9%.<\/p>\n

Seven out of 10 chose tighter border controls over protecting vulnerable migrants<\/a>, and 82% backed increasing fences and surveillance at Spain’s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly nine in 10 Spaniards blame Morocco for the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta in late July, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[43213,19219,20770,304,305],"class_list":["post-219260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pedro-sanchez","tag-border","tag-migrants","tag-morocco","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117233190704989260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}