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Despite the repeated criticism of the opposition for months, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has still not publicly and emphatically condemned Morocco for its incursion into Spanish territorial waters, through the installation of an illegal fish farm in the Chafarinas archipelago, an enclave that Rabat claims to Yes. Now it is clear that this inhibition of Moncloa in the face of the Morocco affront has cooked with the courtship undertaken by Sánchez to ingratiate himself with Mohamed VI after the severe diplomatic crisis that broke out between the two pays. The culmination of this procession has been Sánchez's surprising decision to align with the Moroccan position on the Sahara.
In this context, Las Chafarinas have served Morocco as an added touchstone in its pressure on Moncloa, which has chosen to fit this Alaouite interference in Spanish territorial waters.
Despite the insistent parliamentary questions from the opposition on this matter, the Executive has chosen not to launch the slightest declaration of condemnation towards the neighboring country. The testing the parliamentary response with which the Government of Sánchez has dispatched, in writing, a battery of questions from the opposition on this matter. In his official response, compiled by ABC and dated January 21, Moncloa appealed for "cooperation" and good "neighbourliness" to publicly censure Morocco's actions in Chafarinas.
This response adds to the disconcerting dispute that the Sánchez Executive gave the PP in December, when he went so far as to say that this Moroccan interference in Spanish territorial waters did not go with the Government, that it was a mere administrative authority of regional competence, of aquaculture.
“Neighborhood and cooperation”
In his reply dated January 21, he does not go to that extreme, but he continues without censoring Morocco. To the question of how to pretend to stand up to this Alaouite interference, the Government says that it is necessary to cultivate "the best neighborly relations and cooperation with Morocco". The most that the opposition has achieved is that, in this response, Moncloa affirms generically that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "has promoted the corresponding actions to guarantee compliance with the applicable regulations, reforming said actions with a communication to Morocco through diplomatic channels habitual”. But he remarked, to avoid friction with the Alaouite kingdom, that "this is not at odds with Spain's will to maintain the best neighborly relations and cooperation with Morocco." And in no case does he detail whether any specific demand has been planted and, if any, what it has been. The PP asked him a long time ago to order, without further ado, the dismantling of that illegal fish farm.
"The Government always watches over the territorial integrity of Spain, and always defends the interests of Spain and the Spaniards," indicates the Government as the culmination of this parliamentary response on Chafarinas, which has served Sánchez to dispatch a total of twelve questions that He raised the opposition on this matter: nine from Vox and three from the PP.
The intervention takes place in these months, through a fish farming company that the Government of Morocco protected so that it could be established in Spanish waters of the Chafarinas archipelago. The Alaouite kingdom does not recognize these Spanish domains and claims them as its own.
Morocco assumed authority over these waters and gave permission to a company from its country to set up a fish farm there. This is how this 'de facto' occupation has come about, which came to light last year, coinciding with the diplomatic crisis that broke out when Spain clandestinely took in the Saharawi Brahim Gali, leader of the Polisario Front, an armed enemy of Morocco.
Unanswered Questions
Either because it has not provided the information that was requested or because it has answered evasively, the Government has left practically all of those twelve questions from PP and Vox unanswered. He asked the Government to explain why it took several months to transfer a formal complaint to Morocco, and the answer does not clear up the question. He also does not reveal how long he knew about this illegal occupation of Chafarinas waters, by what means he found out and if he had a report from the Ministry of Defense warning of Rabat's maneuvers on Chafarinas ". And the Government also without answering the question of what effective measures it intends to adopt to restore legality in the face of Moroccan interference in Chafarinas.
