Congress denies Sanchez’s return to the Sahara an hour before his departure for Morocco

Just six hours before Morocco’s King Mohammed VI takes over Pedro Sanchez, after a government reshuffle over a move to the Sahara, Congress has given the green light to an initiative to ratify support for UN resolutions. Conflict. The proposal was supported by United We Can, ERC and Bildu and was supported by all investment partners except PP. Vox and Ciudadanos abstained. Voting involves confirmation by Parliament of the President’s rejection of the historic reversal of the former Spanish colony.

Only the PSOE opposed the illegal proposal, although it initially said it supported it on the condition that support for Morocco’s proposal for Saharan autonomy did not violate what the United Nations had previously advocated. After Sanchez insists that the solution must be “mutually acceptable to both sides”, despite taking the Moroccan side. The Socialists justify a change in the sternness of the speech of United We Can’s spokesman, Gerardo Pizzarello, during the debate.

“Nothing but trivial and myopic calculations will justify the same belief in defending the free determination of the rights of the people of Sahara against the colonial claims of Muhammad VI,” said Pizarrelo, who described what Sanchez referred to in his letter as “disturbing.” To the King of Morocco as an “ally and great friend.” “A progressive government cannot use this language, it can not do it without violating its foundations, parliamentary partners and without conversion. Realpolitik “With the sad exercise of cynicism,” he continued before the interrogation: “What if it comes to Ukraine, to say that Putin’s proposals are the most realistic, fair and credible on the table?

This “decibel increase” of his partner is what Hector Gomez’s pilot group is using to justify a change of position. Earlier, he argued that the Socialists could fully support the action part of the illegal proposal, which reads: “The Congress of Deputies ratifies its support for the UN Resolutions and the United Nations Mission in the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO). ), Believing that only dialogue, negotiation and agreement, carried out in good faith and constructively, in accordance with international law, will contribute to the achievement of a just, realistic, viable, lasting and acceptable political solution by both parties. “Political conflict in Western Sahara.”

However, the operative part was very strict with the PSOE and asserted that “part of the Spanish government has unilaterally changed its position on the conflict in the Western Sahara, contrary to UN resolutions and international law itself.” It is also disturbing that Moncloe made this decision “without consulting or sharing with any political group in the House of Representatives and without violating the consensus of the House majority” and warned of “the possible diplomatic consequences of this action.” “We must not forget the possible economic and energy consequences of this decision,” the text reads.

The initiative went ahead with the affirmative vote of United We Can – including second vice president Yolanda Diaz – and other investment partners, including ERC and EH Bildu, who also signed the bill, and PP, who criticized the forms in which it took place. A historic change in Spain’s position in the Sahara. Vox and Ciudadanos abstained. However, illegal proposals have no practical legal effect beyond being declared by Congress. Investment partners have been warning Sanchez for weeks that he has no parliamentary support for the change. And this Thursday is seen in the polls.

At the exit of the bicycle, ERC MP Martha Rosick positively assessed the voting result. “This is a clear warning to President Sanchez during his visit to Rabat,” he said, accompanied by parliamentarians from the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdullah Arab and MPs from EH Bildu and United We Can. The media, in which he claimed that “he does not even have the support of the Congress of Deputies.” “We presented the same initiative that was presented to the Senate a year ago. That if they supported, they would now change the opposition and decide to be on the side of the oppressor. “Beside those who violate the UN resolution, 74 resolutions, no more and no less,” he said.

Rossi took the opportunity to condemn Catalan activist Oriol Puig and photojournalist David Melero for visiting Saharan activist Sultana Jaya, “who had suffered under the Moroccan authorities for a long time” and that upon their arrival in the country, they became aggressive and forced Catalonia to return. The ERC MP stressed that “these situations can not go unpunished and the Spanish state can not be complicit in this.” “Today’s vote showed that the Congress of Deputies does not support the complicity of these violations.

Speaking on the same line, EH Bildu MP John Iniarritu said that the approval of this initiative “isolates Pedro Sanchez and corrects his position.” “Today, the Congress made it clear that the position of the majority is one that respects the UN and MINURSO resolutions. This is the position of the Spanish state and no other. ”

Inarito stressed that this Thursday it was shown that the change in the PSOE’s position on the Sahara “is not part of the UN resolutions”: “Today Sanchez is going to Rabat in absolute solitude. “He can only defend a position ratified in the General Courts, any other will be personal or from the PSOE, but he will not have the support of a majority in Congress,” he said.