Newspaper library Pedro Sánchez calls the agreement with Mohamed VI a "diplomatic milestone" and predicts that it will give results soon
Diplomacy The president of Algeria accuses Sánchez of "breaking everything" in an "ethically inadmissible" way but guarantees the gas contracts
The President of the
Government
, Pedro Sánchez, will have to give an account in
Congress about his trip to Morocco and reveal the fine print of the new bilateral relationship, after
Spain
's change of position
regarding Western Sahara.
As this newspaper has been able to learn, all the parliamentary groups except PSOE, United We Can and Bildu have supported an initiative by the PP in the
Board of Spokespersons
to explain "the new partnership for the 21st century that it established during its visit to
Rabat
and the consequences that this has caused in the relationship with
Algeria
".
Sánchez's trip to Rabat was part of the rapprochement with the neighboring country, after the Executive supported the autonomy of the Sahara, within Morocco, as the "most serious and credible" base to resolve the conflict in the former Spanish colony.
But the beginning of this new stage of cordial bilateralism angered Algeria, which maintains a dispute with Morocco over Western Sahara.
On April 12, the PP registered a request for the head of the Executive to appear so that he "give an account of the issues addressed on his trip to Morocco."
In a message on her personal Twitter account, the PP's parliamentary spokeswoman, Cuca Gamarra, lamented that "Sánchez's turn to foreign policy without the support of Congress already has serious consequences" in Spain's relationship with Algeria, due to the difficulties in the negotiation with the African country for the supply of natural gas, while providing facilities to others such as
Italy
.
And the general coordinator of the PP,
Elías Bendodo
, has already urged the Government to explain the "depth of the fine print" of the joint declaration that Spain and Morocco issued last Thursday after the visit of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to King
Mohamed VI
.
Two weeks later, the Board of Spokespersons has approved the appearance of Sánchez with the favorable vote of the representatives of the PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, ERC, Junts per Catalunya and the CUP (for the
Mixed Group
), and the United vote against. Podemos, who preferred that the foreign minister appear, and Bildu, who has abstained.
The request for the appearance of the PP, signed by Gamarra, emphasizes that Sánchez traveled to Rabat despite the pronouncement "against" the Congress, and emphasizes the "deterioration" of the relationship with Algeria due to "the contradictions and deceptions of the Government Spanish".
The initiative argues that, just when Sánchez traveled to Rabat "he began an upward revision of gas prices with our country while maintaining the price for the rest of his buyers", since the "diplomatic tension" has been taken advantage of by Italy "to strengthen its relationship with Algeria, becoming its preferred partner in terms of energy, ahead of Spain".
And this "may be endangering the security of our supply."
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