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Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.
Melilla is an autonomous city of Spain in North Africa. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks,bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 12.3 km2 (4.7 sq mi). It was part of the Province of Málaga until 14 March 1995,when the Statute of Autonomy of Melilla was passed.
The Melilla border fence forms part of the Morocco–Spain border in the city of Melilla,one of two Spanish cities in north Africa. Constructed by Spain,its stated purpose is to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. Melilla's border and its equivalent in Ceuta,also bordering Morocco,are the only two land borders between the European Union and an African country.
Greater Morocco is a label historically used by some Moroccan nationalist political leaders protesting against Spanish,Portuguese,Algerian and French rule,to refer to wider territories historically associated with the Moroccan sultan. Current usage most frequently occurs in a critical context,accusing Morocco,largely in discussing the disputed Western Sahara,of irredentist claims on neighboring territories.
Morocco is a neighbouring and associated country of the European Union. The nation has a territorial land border with EU member Spain in the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. It also has a maritime border with Spain through the Gibraltar Strait and Exclusive Economic Zone borders with EU member Portugal in the Atlantic. The relations between the two are framed in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Union for the Mediterranean. Among the ENP countries,Morocco has been recognised an advanced status,opening up to high levels of political cooperation.
María Antonia Trujillo Rincón is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician.
MoroccoandSpain maintain extensive diplomatic,commercial,and military ties. The Morocco–Spain border separates the plazas de soberanía on the Mediterranean coast from the Moroccan mainland. Morocco's foreign policy has focused on Western partners,including neighboring Spain. Relations have,however,been historically tense and conflictive.
The 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict was a short-lived disturbance of international relations between Morocco and Spain that arose after the announcement of the impending visit of the King of Spain to the Spanish-ruled autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla,which are claimed by Morocco.
Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez is a Spanish judge and politician who has served as minister of the Interior since June 2018. An independent politician close to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party,he has been Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2019 to 2020,and briefly from August to December 2023,representing Cádiz.
In the run up to the 2023 Spanish general election,various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in autonomous communities and constituencies in Spain during the term of the 14th Cortes Generales. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous general election,held on 10 November 2019,to the present day.
The 2023 Ceuta Assembly election was held on Sunday,28 May 2023,to elect the 8th Assembly of the autonomous city of Ceuta. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The 2023 Melilla Assembly election was held on Sunday,28 May 2023,to elect the 8th Assembly of the autonomous city of Melilla. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
Events in the year 2021 in Spain.
Juan Sergio Redondo Pacheco is a Spanish historian and politician who has been the leader of Vox in the Assembly of Ceuta since 2019.
Events in the year 2022 in Spain.
María Teresa López Álvarez is a Spanish journalist,broadcaster,activist and politician.
Yahya Yahya is a Moroccan politician and a fugitive from Spanish justice for having been accused of ill-treatment in politics in Morocco. He was a senator of the kingdom of Morocco and former mayor of Beni Ansar,as well as co-president of the Spanish-Moroccan Friendship Commission. He has dual Moroccan and Dutch nationality. He is one of the main promoters of the Moroccan claim on his hometown,as well as on Ceuta. He is linked to the Moroccan Sahara Association.
The 2021 Morocco–Spain border incident was a migratory incident caused by the massive crossing of people along the beaches of the border between both countries in the direction of Ceuta and Melilla in Spain that began on 17 May 2021. It originated due to a deterioration in diplomatic relations between the Moroccan monarchy and the Government of Spain,after the latter admitted the transfer of the main representative of the Saharawi independence movement Polisario Front to a Spanish hospital in La Rioja,in April 2021. A month after the hospitalization,the Moroccan security forces located on the border in Ceuta relaxed the last control mechanisms,allowing the passage of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish city,most of whom made the journey by swimming.
On 24 June 2022,23 migrants and asylum seekers were killed after a crowd crush at the Melilla border fence during a conflict with Moroccan and Spanish security forces. Conflict broke out as between around 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers gathered in the early hours of the day to cross the border with Spain.
Fatima Hamed Hossain is a Spanish lawyer and politician. She founded the Movement for Dignity and Citizenship (MDyC) in 2014 and has served as a member of the Assembly of Ceuta since 2015,the first Muslim woman to lead a group in the assembly. In 2021,she was one of five founders of Sumar.
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