Algeria detects the weakness of this Government

The diplomatic and commercial rupture decided by Algeria opens

, if not before.

The situation has not stopped getting worse since a year ago the Government decided to introduce

in Spain without informing Morocco, which reacted by unleashing a wave of immigrants on Ceuta.

Since then, Moncloa seems to have entered into a dynamic of swerves and counterswerves -since the purge of González Laya you have

repatriation of two Algerian opponents - to try to maintain good neighborliness with

.

But mistakes in foreign policy have serious and lasting effects.

The reasons for the lurch in the Sahara issue remain obscure.

One thing is that Sánchez appears -late, moreover- and another that has clarified the true reasons for his decision.

Why

, endorsed by the UN as the tutelary power of the former colony, through a letter published by the King of Morocco?

Why did he subtract such a decisive turn,

, to the consideration of Parliament, your coalition partner, your own party and public opinion in short?

They are unanswered questions.

Before the different actors in the zone, Spain today reveals the same weakness that afflicts its Executive.

It seems obvious that Sánchez tries to compensate for the lack of internal cohesion of the Government and its parliamentary precariousness with an irresponsible Caesarism that translates into burdensome blunders for the country's image.

Today the fourth largest economy in the euro projects the impression that it has yielded to Moroccan blackmail without visible gain while

, one of our main gas suppliers.

Asking Brussels for protection so that it corrects its own mistakes and puts Algeria in a commercial position not only betrays its own ineptitude but can be counterproductive.

In fact,

to conduct and export Algerian gas to a Europe seeking energy independence from Russia.

the vaunted

gas will be Italian, not Spanish.

Caesarism is compatible with the growing suspicion that Sánchez does not act freely.

That conjecture was legitimized by the Government when it considered it a good idea to announce the theft of the president's mobile data.

It should be remembered that

, author of the announcement, is called to testify as a witness of the

, when Moncloa was trying to placate its separatist partners, who were involved in a baseless campaign of victimization due to the legal espionage of the CNI.

.

Meanwhile, Algerian boats arrive in the Balearic Islands and the gas companies fear an upward renegotiation that will obviously affect the bill.

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