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In the PSOE have not sat well the statements of Yolanda Díaz referring to Morocco as "a dictatorship" in the interview broadcast this Sunday in La Sexta. "It's a personal position. Of course it is not the position of this party or this Government, "said the spokeswoman for the Socialists and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría.

To the public disavowal of the words of the second vice president – and member of the quota of Unidas Podemos in the coalition Executive – is added the warning made from Ferraz about the "complexity" of diplomatic relations with the kingdom aluí as to put them at risk. Important issues such as the control of illegal immigration and far-reaching economic agreements depend on collaboration with the neighbouring country.

In the aforementioned television interview, Jordi Évole asks Díaz if he would reverse the 180-degree turn to the position on the Sahara that Pedro Sánchez has given by supporting it to be an autonomous province within the African country instead of defending the right of its population to determine its future through a negotiated solution as it had been maintained granularily. "Without a doubt. I have my position very clear," responds the vice president.

She then argues that "of course you have to take your neighbor seriously" and that she herself is in charge of signing bilateral employment contracts, such as the one that has recently fixed the 16,000 strawberry campaign workers in Huelva. "I work with Morocco every day, it's our southern border. Now, Morocco is what it is," adds the now also candidate for the general elections under the brand Sumar. And when the journalist asks him "what is it?", he answers emphatically: "A dictatorship".

"Our relations with Morocco have been very clear in that roadmap of the Spanish-Moroccan declaration of April 7 of last year and more recently with the celebration of the RAN [High Level Meeting] that covers very important issues for the two countries," Alegría has settled.

Due to the change of position regarding the Sahara, no minister of Unidas Podemos was part of the government delegation that participated in the summit referred to by the PSOE spokesperson held on February 1 and 2 in Rabat. Díaz then told La Moncloa that his absence was a "political decision."


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