Denver – Vox, Spain’s far-right party, has announced its opposition to the latest effort from Ceuta’s government to be more inclusive to the city’s Muslim population.
Late last month, authorities in the Spanish enclave announced Eid Al Adha and Eid Al Fitr, two important holidays in Islam, would now be recognized as working holidays under the city’s laws.
In response, Vox has threatened to undertake legal action against Ceuta’s government. The party has verbally attacked both the city’s Mayor-President Juan Vivas and the leadership of the left-leaning Popular Party, whom they accuse of kowtowing to migrants.
Vox politician Juan Sergio Redondo labeled the decision as “another gesture of the Moroccanization” of the enclave’s government. He accused “the PP Government and its partners of the socialist ultra-left” of using tricks to implement the new law.
He added that Vox members would proceed with legal action against the government and work towards “declaring null the working calendar proposed by the Moroccan government of the PP.”
Vox politicians have continued to stir controversy and fuel anti-Moroccan sentiment in Ceuta over recent months, often sparking anger with racist and xenophobic language in the city’s government. Earlier this year, party officials proposed banning the city’s imams, who they accused of being “paid agents” of Morocco.
Vox also directed anti-Moroccan comments to a female Moroccan-born politician in Ceuta’s government, saying she should be “deported to Morocco” for stating that Vox leader Santiago Abascal was not welcome in Ceuta.
