The Spanish Congress of Deputies, lower house of Parliament, reinforced, on Thursday July 14, 2022, the position of the government of Pedro Sanchez on the question of the Moroccan Sahara, thus confirming the broad support, within the Spanish constitutional institutions and the main political parties , to the Moroccan autonomy proposal.
By rejecting by a very large majority (252 out of 333 votes) “a motion for a resolution” asking the Spanish government to review its position on the Moroccan Sahara, the Spanish Parliament clearly and decisively supports the approach taken by the President of the government, Pedro Sanchez, who underlined last March in a message addressed to HM King Mohammed VI that his country “considers the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the most serious, realistic and credible basis for resolving the dispute regarding the Moroccan Sahara.
The vote consecrates an implacable and limpid report, not allowing any ambiguity: The two main political forces in Spain, both of the majority (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE) and of the opposition (People’s Party, PP) voted once morest the text of the resolution. Only the deputies behind this resolution, and who are used to chasing following chimeras, obviously approved it. Extreme formations without much impact on political life, made up in particular of the Catalan republican left and the Basque separatists of Bildu.
This new snub to the support of the separatists once once more puts things in the right place and reinforces the position of the government of Mr. Sanchez, who had recognized, in the message addressed to HM the King, “the importance of the question of the Sahara for Morocco”, while emphasizing “the serious and credible efforts of Morocco within the framework of the United Nations to find a mutually acceptable solution” to the dispute. In this logic, the position taken by the Spanish Congress of Deputies enshrines support for the full and entire sovereignty of the Kingdom over its southern provinces and for the serious efforts it is deploying for the settlement of the conflict around the Moroccan Sahara.
Doubling the hopes of the separatists and their few supporters, the new debacle definitively ratifies the bankruptcy of the theses supported by the separatists, which resonate with a thin minority in search of fallacious electoral interests.
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