Vivas: Moncloa Told Him to Stop Calling About Ceuta Because He Was 'Very Annoying'

Ceuta president Juan Jesús Vivas says that on July 27 — three days before the mass crossing — he asked Madrid's Interior Ministry to declare a national emergency and set up a unified command, but was told 'nothing is happening, this is a summer storm, everything is under control.' Vivas says when he tried to reach PM Pedro Sánchez directly and kept calling with warnings, Moncloa's Cabinet Office asked him to stop calling because he and Ceuta's government were 'being very annoying.' The account sharpens a dispute with the government over CNI warnings issued July 29, and comes as the Ceuta government delegation's chief of staff has separately resigned after saying he had informed his superior of the alerts.