Rabat – Spain is confronted with sharp criticism, and many extreme concerns that repeated diplomatic failure could cause a diplomatic crisis with Morocco again.
Viral videos show that the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali gives a big smile when he poses with Yolanda Diaz, who acts as the second deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor in Spain.
Per-Polisario Activists as well as Polisario and Algeria associated media that aim at the diplomatic profits of Morocco, also claimed that Spanish King Felipe VI. Brahim Ghali welcomed the inauguration of the new left -wing President of Uruguay on Saturday.
Brahim Ghali’s appearance alongside Yolanda Diaz is no surprise because the minister is known for her enemy statements and her approach to Morocco.
Last year in April Diaz Morocco described as a “dictatorship”.
Diaz, which comes from the new fur-left coalition sum, said that she would “certainly dismiss” all agreements that Morocco and Spain have signed in recent months if it is ever voted prime minister.
However, the reports of King Felipe VI, who welcomes the Polisario leader, were able to spark a new episode of tensions between Rabat and Madrid again.
While some concerns about the photos, others suggested that they have no political importance.
Paulino Ros, journalist and professor of sociology in Murcia, told Morocco World News (MWN) that the photos “have no importance that Spain has not changed and is in line with the Sahara position in Morocco.”
Pro-polisario activists documented and used for Ros, the photos in an attempted maneuver against Spain-Morocco bonds.
“The people who appear there are in full political decline, they used the King of Spain to try to stand out, but they do not succeed because their time has expired,” added the journalist.
Timetics of the tensions
The Spanish government is aware of the importance of meaning Western Sahara Dossier for Morocco. The North African country showed a strong position against the one -sided decision of Spain to organize the Polisario leader for the hospital stay in April 2021.
Ghali traveled to Spain with a wrong name – Mohammed Ben Battouch – to avoid arrest. He was sought in Spain for war crimes, terrorism and kidnapping lawsuits by Spanish families and kidnapping lawsuits Sahrawis The Tindouf camps controlled by Polisario were tortured by the Algerian regime.
The Sanchez government did not make Morocco, one of its main trading partners, inform about their agreement with Algeria about Ghali’s travel plan.
It was only on April 23, 2021, when former Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya decided to make the news public, and explained that Ghali was transferred to Spain for “purely humanitarian reasons”.
The Foreign Ministry in Morocco responded to the one -sided decision of Spain by conjuring up Madrid’s ambassador for Consultation in Rabat.
Rabat expressed disappointment with Marid and said that the hospital stay of Ghali was against The “spirit of partnership and good neighborhood and which affects a fundamental use for the Moroccan people and their vital forces”.
Since then, the two countries have experienced deteriorating tensions, which led to Spain trying to open dialogue with the North African country to improve bilateral bonds.
It was only in March 2022 that the connections between the two countries restore normality when Spain makes a historical decision Sahara.
The announcement also followed a trip by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Morocco, where he met King Mohammed VI.
However, their relationship is not entirely out of stormy waters, especially after the Spanish media campaign, which aimed at Morocco to open slow customs between the two countries in which they accused the North African country.
Last month, however, Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska emphasized the claims and said: “I make it clear that the degree of Spanish-Moroccan cooperation and cooperation is obviously important, relevant and of the greatest loyalty and reliability.”
Similar comments were made by Spanish government officials, including Pedro Sanchez.
However, Spain has made other diplomatic mistakes. In December 2024, Sanchez lit a controversy after appearing before A divided Moroccan card during his Christmas message. This asked questions about the actual position of Spain on the Sahara dispute.
The divided map that leaves the southern provinces of Morocco stands against the territorial integrity of the country and contradicts the 2022 Morocco pain’s agreement, which has solved the one-year crisis between the two countries.
It remains to be seen whether the Spanish government will reject the claims funded by pro-polisario activists, or this will be another episode of the diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Madrid.
