The Diplomat
People’s Party denounced yesterday in the Senate that the Government has given in to Morocco in exchange for nothing and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, accused the main opposition party of having “neither a sense of State nor common sense.”
During a parliamentary session of control of the Government in the plenary session of the Senate, Pilar Rojo, of the PP, stated that the result of Spain’s change of position regarding Western Sahara and the rapprochement with Morocco has been an increase in the number of irregular immigrants and the failure to comply with the Moroccan commitment to open customs with Ceuta and Melilla.
According to Rojo, the “new stage of friendship” with Rabat has meant, “in reality, one more of the multiple blackmails and humiliations with which Morocco is making them pay for their mistakes and weakness since they came to power.”
In his response, Albares lamented the “anti-Moroccan obsession” of the PP and stated that the People’s Party “is not that they lack a sense of State, it is that they lack common sense.” Spain, “like any country on the planet,” must try to have the best relations with the countries with which it has a land border, she warned. “It is a foreign policy norm, although I see that he does not know everything about state policies,” he added.
With its attitude, according to the minister, the PP is “turning its back” on “a key partner in the fight against jihadist terrorism and the fight against irregular migration”, more than 21,000 million euros in commercial exchanges, 17,000 export companies, “the 17,000 Spaniards” who live in the Alawite kingdom, the almost million Moroccans who do so in Spain and “the ten million Spaniards” who live in Andalusia, the Canary Islands and Ceuta and Melilla.
Albares also recalled that the former president of the Government José María Aznar never visited the two Autonomous Cities and Mariano Rajoy, also from the PP, only did so on one occasion, while the current head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, has traveled to Ceuta three times and Melilla, in one of them to present a Comprehensive Development Plan for both Autonomous Cities.
