Podemos has asked Spain not to give in to the "blackmail" of Morocco and has requested "self-determination for the Saharawi people," as Idoia Villanueva, MEP and International secretary of the

purple

party, expressed this Wednesday

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"We have always had a clear position and that we maintain: the need for self-determination for the Saharawi people as defined by International Law," Villanueva specified in a video broadcast on social networks by the formation.

For Podemos, Morocco has used "individuals and families in a situation of extreme vulnerability" in order to "exert political pressure" against Spain by causing a migration crisis in Ceuta.

For Villanueva, Morocco's reaction comes after allowing the entry of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, into Spain to be "a serious case of Covid" and at a time when tensions have increased "due to expansionist aspirations" of Morocco "on the territory of Western Sahara" and the "fishing and mineral" resources, both Saharawi and Canaries.

"Defending our sovereignty implies not giving in to Moroccan blackmail," claimed the purple MEP, who has called for a change of course in European migration policy, which she has currently labeled "erratic and useless".

"We need a policy that goes to the root of the conflicts, that is jointly responsible among the Member States, that combats the causes of forced migration and that avoids humanitarian crises," Villanueva pointed out.

Breeding ground for the "extreme right"

Similarly, Villanueva has considered that the "extreme right" is making this crisis their breeding ground to expand their "hate speech."

"We cannot allow Morocco or the cowardly and servile far right" to use the thousands of people who have crossed the border "to blackmail or to spread their hate speech."

In this sense, the International Secretary of Podemos has asked to end the "criminalization" not only of people, but also of rescue organizations and human rights defenders "who are doing what the administrations are failing to do. make".

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