{"id":82212,"date":"2026-09-07T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82212\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:07:23","slug":"majority-of-spaniards-unhappy-with-governments-handling-of-ceuta-crisis-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82212\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Spaniards unhappy with government’s handling of Ceuta crisis, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly nine in 10 Spaniards blame Morocco<\/a> for the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta<\/a> in late July, while a majority rate 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 \u200cparty.<\/p>\n

The 40dB poll of \u200b2,000 people \u200cfor El Pais newspaper \u200cand radio station SER also recorded an increase in voting intentions for \u200bthe conservatives<\/a> and the anti-immigration, far-right Vox party, in \u200bline with several other polls \u200cconducted after the deadly border surge into Spain<\/a>‘s North African enclave.<\/p>\n

For 89% of respondents, Morocco bore the most responsibility for the crisis, followed by human-trafficking groups (75%), \u2060the spread of disinformation on social media (74%), the migrants<\/a> who \u200bdecided \u200bto cross (73%) \u200cand the Spanish government (72%), the 40dB poll found.<\/p>\n

Only 14.2% rated Sanchez’s handling of the crisis positively, with \u200ctwo-thirds of those surveyed saying his response was too slow. The combined voting intentions for the conservative Partido Popular and Vox hit 50.2%, leading their potential right-wing alliance to \u2060breach the 50% mark \u200cfor the first time in an opinion poll during this legislature. The centre-left bloc fell to 36.1%.<\/p>\n

The PP rose to \u200b32.4%, from 32% in \u200cthe \u200cprevious 40dB poll in July, and Vox to 17.8% from 17.2%, while Sanchez’s Socialist Party dipped to 27.6% from 28%. About 27% of respondents named Vox as the most \u2060capable party \u200bon the issue of immigration, ahead of the Socialists<\/a> at 18.4% and \u200bthe PP at 13.9%. Seven out of 10 chose tighter border controls over protecting \u200cvulnerable migrants 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":82213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,1998,3299,30583,4058,6213,605,599,600,3593,2264,24,6215,30584,17],"class_list":["post-82212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-balearics","tag-border-control","tag-ceuta","tag-conservatives","tag-far-right","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-migrants","tag-morocco","tag-politics","tag-small-boats","tag-socialists","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}