In the PSOE, the statements of Yolanda Díaz referring to Morocco as "a dictatorship" in the interview broadcast this Sunday on La Sexta have not gone down well. "It is a personal position. Of course it is not the position of this party or this government," said the spokesperson for the Socialists and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría.
Added to the public disavowal of the words of the second vice president -and a member of the United Podemos quota in the coalition Executive- is the warning made by Ferraz about the "complexity" of diplomatic relations with the Aluí kingdom 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 neighboring 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 as an autonomous province within the African country instead of defending the rights of its population to determine their future through a negotiated solution as had been traditionally maintained. "Without a doubt. I have my position very clear," replies 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, like the one that has recently made the 16,000 strawberry campaign workers permanent in Huelva. "I work with Morocco every day, it is our southern border. Now, Morocco is what it is," adds the now also candidate for the general elections under the Sumar brand. And when the journalist asks her "what is it?", she answers emphatically: "A dictatorship."
"Our relations with Morocco have been very clear in that road map 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 both countries", has settled Alegría.
Due to the change of position regarding the Sahara, no minister of United We Can was part of the government delegation that participated in the summit to which the PSOE spokesperson referred, held on February 1 and 2 in Rabat. Díaz then transferred to La Moncloa that his absence was a "political decision".
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