Vox, Podemos and Sumar have demanded that Morocco be stripped of its role as co-host of the 2030 World Cup, a week after tens of thousands of migrants crossed into Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the north African coast.
Podemos state spokesman Pablo Fernández called on August 5 for Morocco’s expulsion from the tournament, describing the country as a dictatorship that attacks Spanish sovereignty.
He said Spain should stage the competition with Portugal alone and that Morocco should not be allowed to compete either.
His intervention followed a motion tabled the same day in the Congress of Deputies by Sumar, the left-wing platform that is the junior partner in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s coalition.
That text asks the Spanish Government to press FIFA, the Spanish football federation and Portugal to review the joint hosting model in the light of events at the Ceuta border and of the human rights commitments made by host countries.
Vox registered its own motion on August 6, calling on the Government to ask FIFA to exclude Morocco outright.
The right-wing party said the crossings had destroyed the trust and cooperation a shared bid requires and questioned whether Rabat could guarantee security at the tournament.
It also asked the Government to oppose any decision that would reduce Spain’s leading role in the tournament or move the final abroad.
The PSOE, which leads the coalition, has not commented on any of the three initiatives. Livre, a left-wing party in Portugal, has backed the calls.
Morocco, Portugal and Spain were confirmed as co-hosts in December 2024, with single centenary matches to be played in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.
The row over hosting has run alongside a separate dispute about the final. The Times reported that FIFA President Gianni Infantino had offered Morocco the match at the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca in return for backing his re-election, a claim FIFA rejected as “false and misleading”.
Spanish federation president Rafael Louzán has insisted the final will be played in Spain, telling reporters in January that the country had “proven its organisational capacity over many years”.
Infantino faces a vote at the FIFA Congress in Rabat on March 18, 2027, having already lost the endorsement of the English and Welsh associations.
Spain’s interior ministry initially calculated about 50,000 arrivals on July 30, and roughly 69,500 people were returned to Morocco over the following four days. The official death toll stands at 72 on the Spanish side of the border and 11 on the Moroccan side.
Sánchez called the mass entry a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity though he blamed smuggling networks rather than Rabat.
