After the criticism from the right of Pedro Sánchez’s decision to spend a few days on vacation in Morocco, Podemos has also joined this critical vision of the president’s decision. A trip that, according to the purple formation, shows the “complacency” with Rabat and, therefore, with the policy against the self-determination of the Sahara.
In this sense, the Polisario Front has also spoken, pointing out that the president’s vacation is a gesture of “indisputable support” for Moroccan policies. The representative in Spain of the Saharawi Front, Abdulah Arabi, has indicated that despite Moncloa’s explanations about the private nature of the visit “it entails enormous political content”.
The statement from the Polisario Front stresses that the Moroccan press itself interprets Pedro Sánchez’s trip as a sign of his “absolute support for the illegitimate claim maintained by Morocco with respect to Western Sahara.” He also added that the choice of destination is the only way in which Rabat “can aspire to get out of the difficult legal situation” in which it finds itself when it is negotiating on fishing with the EU as if the Sahara were Moroccan waters.
From Podemos there was already a clear distancing when the President of the Government chose to turn around Spanish foreign policy by distancing himself from holding a referendum on self-determination in the Sahara. Sánchez was approaching the position of Rabat in a redefinition of its strategic alliances and with an eye on the southern borders. The President of the Government defends that his thesis remains aligned with the positions of the United Nations to seek an “agreed solution”.
Podemos already criticized this change of course at the time and today Idoia Villanueva, spokesperson for the International Secretariat of training, recalled that Morocco continues to violate fundamental rights “with total impunity”. And she has defended the Saharawi people in their struggle for self-determination “and in the face of the illegitimate use of their resources.”
The Polisario Front delegate underlined Spain’s support for “a decadent regime”.
