Ceuta Delegate Resigns Amid Conflicting Accounts on Migrant Warning

Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano has resigned as the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, also leaving his leadership role in the local Socialist Party and withdrawing from politics, citing family pressure after weeks of intense work and hostility. His departure follows scrutiny of the government’s handling of a mass migration influx from Morocco and conflicting accounts over whether he was informed of a National Intelligence Center warning before the crossings. Pérez Triano says he had alerted the central government weeks earlier and argues that decisions on opening the border or deploying the military were outside his authority; his former chief of staff, who resigned after disputing Pérez Triano’s account, said he had passed the intelligence on to him. The episode is unfolding as an investigation into the mass entry continues, and reports say the government is preparing to replace Pérez Triano with former El Puerto de Santa María mayor David de la Encina.