Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to Morocco
Vox leader calls the Spanish prime minister a traitor and demands a coalition government in Ceuta to stop the migration crisis
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Abascal insiste contra Sánchez tras acusarle de "traición": "Es el gobernante más miserable en toda nuestra historia" Europa Press
Photograph: La Razón (embedded from source)
What this story says
- Santiago Abascal posted on X accusing Pedro Sánchez of deliberately abandoning Ceuta to demoralise its residents and enable a handover to Morocco.
- Abascal called Sánchez a traitor and said he should go to jail over the migration crisis in Ceuta, as reported by Europa Press and La Razón.
- Vox’s Ceuta leader demanded the PP form a coalition government in Ceuta and blamed the city’s president for supporting Sánchez’s policies.
- Right-rated outlets led on Abascal’s accusation and the migration surge, while no left-rated outlet ran the story.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 4 of the 10 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
68/100
Craft
87/100
Hype
35/100
10 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish party Vox, accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of deliberately abandoning Ceuta to demoralise its inhabitants and facilitate a handover of the city to Morocco. Abascal posted the accusation on X on 16 August 2026, as reported by Europa Press and La Razón. He called Sánchez a traitor and said he should be jailed for his handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta.
Abascal also called for a "hygienic cordon" against the PSOE, Sánchez’s party, and urged other parties to abandon the government. Juan Sergio Redondo, Vox’s leader in Ceuta, demanded that the Partido Popular (PP) form a coalition government with Vox in Ceuta. Redondo blamed Juan Jesús Vivas, Ceuta’s president, for supporting Sánchez’s policies and called for an end to his agreements with the PSOE and the local party Movimiento por la Dignidad y la Ciudadanía (MDyC).
What the coverage left out
No left-rated outlet ran the story at all. None of the right-rated digests mentioned Redondo’s demand for control of Ceuta’s health and governance departments, which La Razón’s full report carried. The centre-rated report by Europa Press did not include the figure of 80,000 illegal immigrants reported by Libertad Digital’s digest.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 16 Aug 2026, 19:15, and will add the sides that appear.
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Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to Morocco
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How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Centre
1 rated outlet
- The centre-rated report by Europa Press led on Abascal’s accusation that Sánchez was deliberately abandoning Ceuta to demoralise its inhabitants and facilitate a handover to Morocco. It carried Abascal’s statement that Sánchez should be jailed for the migration crisis and Redondo’s demand for a coalition government in Ceuta. The report did not include the figure of 80,000 illegal immigrants cited by Libertad Digital’s digest.
Right
5 rated outlets
- All five right-rated digests led on Abascal’s accusation that Sánchez was abandoning Ceuta to facilitate a handover to Morocco. La Razón’s full report quoted Abascal calling Sánchez a traitor and demanding his imprisonment, and it carried Redondo’s demand for a coalition government in Ceuta. Libertad Digital’s digest reported that more than 80,000 illegal immigrants had arrived from Morocco, a figure not mentioned in the centre-rated report or La Razón’s full article.
- La Razón’s report quoted Abascal’s phrase "desmoralizar a los ceutíes para que acaben tirando la toalla" ("demoralise the Ceutis so they end up throwing in the towel") and Redondo’s description of Vivas’s agreements with the PSOE and MDyC as a "partido islamista" ("Islamist party"). The digests did not carry these specific wordings.
Read it at the source
10 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Centre
1Right
5- Abascal Accuses Sánchez of "Demoralizing" the Ceutis to Deliver the City to Morocco (opens Libertad Digital in a new tab)
Libertad Digital — is Libertad Digital biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Abascal Accuses Sánchez of Leaving Ceuta to Hand Him over to Morocco: "He Has to End up in Jail" (opens EL ESPAÑOL in a new tab)
EL ESPAÑOL — is EL ESPAÑOL biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Abascal Claims that Pedro Sánchez Has Abandoned Ceuta to "Facilitate Its Handover to Morocco" (opens ESdiario in a new tab)
- Abascal Accuses Sánchez of "Abandoning" Ceuta to End up Handing Her over to Morocco (opens La Razón in a new tab)
- Abascal Accuses Sánchez of "Abandoning" Ceuta to "Deliver" the City to Morocco (opens El Debate in a new tab)
Not rated
4- If Elections Are Held Today, Feijóo and Abascal Would Crush Sanchez with More than 200 Deputies (opens periodistadigital.com in a new tab)
periodistadigital.com — is periodistadigital.com biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Abascal Again Accuses Sánchez of Voler "Delivering" Ceuta Al Marroc "Demoralitzant" Els Espanyols (opens Ara.cat in a new tab)
- Abascal Stirs up Conspiracy Theories that Sánchez Wants to "Hand over" Ceuta to Morocco (opens El Plural in a new tab)
- Abascal Accuses Sánchez of «Abandonar» Ceuta and Letting Him Be «Delivered» to Morocco (opens The Objective in a new tab)
The Objective — is The Objective biased? Our profile of this outlet
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to…?
- Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 17% are rated centre, 83% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 10. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to… left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to… biased?
- Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to Morocco is one event reported by 10 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to…?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Santiago Abascal says Pedro Sánchez is deliberately abandoning Ceuta to…?
- 10 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What did Santiago Abascal accuse Pedro Sánchez of?
- Santiago Abascal accused Pedro Sánchez of deliberately abandoning Ceuta to demoralise its inhabitants and facilitate a handover to Morocco. He called Sánchez a traitor and said he should be jailed for the migration crisis in Ceuta, as reported by Europa Press and La Razón.
- What did Vox demand in Ceuta?
- Vox demanded that the Partido Popular (PP) form a coalition government with them in Ceuta. Vox’s Ceuta leader, Juan Sergio Redondo, blamed the city’s president for supporting Sánchez’s policies and called for control of health and governance departments, as reported by La Razón.
- Which outlets reported the story?
- Right-rated outlets like La Razón, Libertad Digital, EL ESPAÑOL, ESdiario, and El Debate led on the story, while the centre-rated Europa Press also reported it. No left-rated outlet ran the story, as confirmed by the reports printed below.
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