Barely 15 months after the Pegasus case broke out with the espionage on Pedro Sánchez's mobile, the acting President of the Government has appeared on vacation in Morocco. Precisely the country that the European Union has directly linked to this espionage that also affected the phones of the Ministers of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, and of Defense, Margarita Robles.
The arrival of Sánchez in Alaouite territory, around 12 in the morning Spanish time, was reported by the Moroccan media close to the Mohamed VI regime, and later confirmed by the EFE Agency. According to Moncloa sources, the acting president's trip is "strictly private" and has been made on a commercial flight paid for with his own resources. But it had not been announced.
In fact, the destination of the socialist leader seemed to be La Mareta, the presidential residence that Spain has in Lanzarote, where Sánchez has not even spent his first days off after 23-J because until yesterday he had remained in Madrid. His trip to Moroccan territory was unknown and it is the first that a Prime Minister has made outside the country during his summer vacation.
This election has also taken place with the debate on the Pegasus case still open after being uncovered on May 2, 2022, in a press conference prior to the acts of Dos de Mayo in the Community of Madrid, that the mobile of Sánchez and of part of his Cabinet had been illegally tapped with the computer program, according to the National Cryptologic Center. Some events that occurred in the years 2020 and 2021 and to which the historical turn in relations with the Western Sahara of Spain has been attributed, which also affected Spain's commercial and institutional relations with Algeria.
In fact, Pedro Sánchez, a year later, has still not given any explanations in this regard despite the fact that the European Parliament demanded Spain last June to carry out an exhaustive investigation into the Pegasus case because, the institution understood, that there were "clear indications" that he had been promoted with Morocco, a country with which the current government has tried to strengthen ties in recent years with movements such as those in the Sahara after a turbulent first phase in relations between the two countries.
In 2018, when the socialist leader arrived at La Moncloa via a motion of no confidence, he made his first international trip as Prime Minister to Paris and not to Rabat, as his predecessors had done by protocol. A gesture that was taken as a slight by King Mohamed VI and that was added to the decision in 2021 of the then Foreign Minister, Arantxa González Laya, to welcome Brahim Gali, leader of the Polisario Front, in Spain.
Just a few days later, Morocco facilitated the massive jump to the Ceuta border from its territory of more than 10,000 immigrants, which caused strong pressure in our country. In order to redress precisely this situation, Moncloa undertook in its government crisis the dismissal of the minister and positioned itself on the Moroccan side in the position on the Sahara.
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