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The mayor of Cádiz, José María González, Kichi, has sent a letter to the president of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, in which he offers the port of Cádiz for the landing of the Open Arms , in which more than 160 undocumented immigrants travel They have been rejected by Italy and Malta.

"We cannot remain impassive in the face of this borderline situation," says a tweet posted Tuesday by the mayor of Podemos on his Twitter account, in which he shows Cádiz's "commitment and sensitivity" to combat "racist insolvency . "

"I understand that our work in municipalism does not end when our town ends, but we have an international and global role in the search for a more just society," says Kichi in the letter sent to Pedro Sánchez, who has also posted on his account from Twitter

José María González has sent his letter to Sánchez, the Minister of Development and the General Directorate of the Merchant Marine "to ask that he allow these people - crew and shipwrecked - to disembark in Cádiz".

International law states that the nearest country is responsible for the shipwrecked. However, Italy, despite having ratified the Convention of the Law of the Sea and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, appeals to a recent national standard of the Government of Salvini to close its ports to NGOs. Malta also supports that policy. Faced with Italian neglect, Spain has assumed, up to four previous occasions, bailouts made by the Open Arms . Now, after months of clashes with the NGO, he refuses to do so.

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