Add back against the PSOE to reaffirm his turn on the Sahara

Sidi knows this well. First deputy Saharawi in our country for adding, she was born in the Saharawi refugee field of Tindouf (Algeria) and despite arriving in Spain two decades ago, she did not get nationality until 2022. Since landing in the Congress of Deputies a year later, a cause that at the beginning of March this year finally began an uncertain path to its final approval: The Western Sahara under Spanish administration and its descendants. “Everything related to Western Sahara in this Chamber is canceled by the PSOE,” lamented the deputy of adding in the debate of the taking into consideration of the law, in which the socialists were alone voting against. “What have we made to constantly try to erase us from the historical memory of our country?” He asked them.

The criticisms arrive from the minority partner of the Executive in response to the meeting that yesterday starred in Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, in Madrid. In a joint institutional statement – and without questions – in the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, exterior headquarters, the heads of the diplomacy of Spain and Morocco agreed that bilateral relations between the two countries are going through “the best moment in their history.” “It is not a diplomatic slogan, but reality,” Bourita wanted to clarify in which she has been her first official visit to our country in the last six years after raising first in Washington and Paris. Since November 2027, when he met with his then counterpart Josep Borrell, he had not stepped on Spanish soil as opposed to frequent Albare trips to Rabat. The last, in February of last year.

That of Morocco, the “most realistic” solution

Yesterday was an appointment that aimed to review the road map agreed three years ago, in April 2022, with the visit of Pedro Sánchez to Mohamed VI after folding against Morocco and delivering the Western Sahara after 46 years. “Spain considers the Moroccan initiative presented in 2007 as the most serious, realistic and credible base to solve this difference,” said Albares. A posture applauded by Bourita by stating that “in parallel to international opinion” is there because there are already 22 European Union countries that subscribe the sovereignty of Morocco, in addition to other permanent members of the Security Council and states of the Persian Gulf, said the Moroccan. And above all, he said, aimed at unleashing the Saharawi issue in front of those – in reference to the Polisario Front – that continue to defend a self -determination referendum “from Madrid or Stockholm” and that “do not want a solution to the problem after fifty years.”

It was not until the socialist leader gave to the pressures of the Alauí kingdom, who requested clarity in the position on the Sahara, which Spain restored broken ties with Morocco with a letter that the president of the Government sent to the Moroccan monarch on March 18, 2022, whose content was disclosed in the first instance by Rabat and not by the Moncloa. The next month, Sanchez himself moved to Rabat to seal peace with the King of Morocco and, standing on the side of the dispute, closed a diplomatic crisis that dates back to April 2021 with the hospitalization in Logroño of the Leader of the Polysory Front, Brahim Gali, and subsequently aggravated with the assault on the border of Ceuta That same year of more than 10,000 Moroccans crossing next Spanish.

«On April 7, 2022 it was a turning point in our relationship; Before there was not so much confidence or so much positive spirit, “Bourita admitted while celebrating that” the logic of the relationship [entre ambos países] It has changed and advanced a lot ». Since then, he explained before melting in a hug with Albares, communication with Madrid is “easy” and “there are no surprises.” According to Albares, the commitments between Spain and Morocco are fulfilled “at a good pace” and proof of this, he stated, is “the recent opening of the customs” of Melilla – something that, in practice, has not been so, the only thing that has happened is that Sánchez gave in the beginning of the year the control of the same to Rabat to choose the merchandise he wants -, the cooperation in migration matters, the “excellent” economic-commercials or the joint celebration of the 2030 Male World Cup.