Overview
- Valencian president Juanfran Pérez Llorca announced that the Generalitat’s Alta Distinción will be conferred on the City of Ceuta and its population during the 9 d'Octubre honors.
- Pérez Llorca made the announcement after an institutional visit by Ceuta’s president Juan Jesús Vivas and other officials to the Valencian government.
- Valencian leaders framed the award as an act of solidarity and as a rebuke to what they called recent attacks on Spanish sovereignty in Ceuta.
- Vivas used the visit to stress Ceuta’s unity and resilience and to say that normality requires the return to Morocco of people who entered the city irregularly.
- The Valencia City Council separately gave its Medal of Honor to Vivas in the same honors program, reinforcing regional support and keeping migration and bilateral relations at the center of the political message.