Albares affirms that with the turn of the Sahara "it is not about Spain winning something"

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The parliamentary groups, deeply annoyed with the radical change decided on the sly by Pedro Sánchez in relation to Western Sahara, have not wanted to wait for the appearance that the Foreign Minister will substantiate this afternoon in

and have urged him to anticipate arguments in the monitoring session.

They have achieved little beyond the fact that José Manuel Albares has insisted that the Government remains faithful to the international legality contained in the

resolutions and has admitted that "it is not a question of whether

wins something or not" with the pact with

, but to go from being a "spectator" in the face of a conflict that has lasted 47 years, to being an "actor" in it.

The Foreign Minister loves to refer to his many trips and meetings, the last of which was with the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara,

, and with this he has tried to silence criticism from the House parties .

However, on this occasion, he has not been able to refer to any previous contact with

's change of position

.

Albares has avoided clarifying, as he was asked, if he informed

of the Spanish swerve and has even asked the political groups "to stop talking here [in Congress] about this matter and start doing it at the UN."

For the PP, the government's foreign policy can be summed up in a single sentence: "Improvise, rectify, deceive and blame someone else."

EH Bildu has also demanded explanations for the change in position "just now".

To this, the Foreign Minister has responded by insisting that Spain's position conforms to UN Resolution 2602.

But the truth is that this text in its fourth point exhorts the states to encourage and seek solutions that contemplate "self-determination" of the Saharawi people, an approach to which Spain now definitively turns its back.

It has also tried to take advantage of the support that former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has given to the turn of Spanish foreign policy.

Zapatero has assured that the position of Spain has not changed with respect to the one that he maintained, but this is not true either.

Both he, and later Mariano Rajoy, welcomed the proposal for autonomy for the Sahara designed by

in 2007, as a serious and credible initiative but never described it as "the most" in a letter sent directly to the King of

.

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Politics The PP avoids positioning itself on "the bottom" of the Saharawi conflict, but calls for a pact that includes Algeria

European Union Albares now avoids clarifying whether he informed Algeria of the Government's change of position in the Sahara: "Communications between Spain and Morocco are bilateral"

CongresoSánchez will dilute in Congress the turn on the Sahara with the obligatory information on the European Council

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