flexible principles

Sponsored by Mohammed VI. Donald Trump’s decision to recognize his sovereignty over Western SaharaBrahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, gave us a warning when he came to Spain to deal with Covid. Advance warning of his visit would have been kind, but he could not avert the crisis because Morocco wanted him to put into practice what Marcos Bartolomé said in a recent Foreign Policy article. “anger diplomacy” (diplomacy of anger) and stifling the immigration issue while economically suffocating Melilla and Ceuta, where it started an avalanche of 10,000, most of them underage, and then completed the movement by calling its ambassador in Madrid for consultations. And President Sánchez cringed, as he knew Morocco would eventually do, and presented him first on a platter the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arantxa González Laya, and implicitly recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, as that was not enough. , because this is the obvious result of supporting their autonomy plan. This is a personal decision that has changed the policy of Spain in the last 50 years, exceeding the powers of the presidency (Article 69 of the Constitution), taken without the knowledge of its ministers, without the support of any political force outside of Congress itself. Party calls for election program PSOE Self-determination referendum for the Saharaand forgetting that foreign policy requires consensus, as Moncloa responds to unchanging State interests when it changes tenants. And, at least so far, without explaining how this decision has contributed to facilitating conflict resolution or what advantages it has for Spain, apart from specific ones like controlling irregular migration a little more or relieving pressure on Ceuta and Melilla. Change the underlying problem, because Morocco will never give up its claim to sovereignty. In other words, we submit to principles in exchange for temporary advantages, regardless of international legality and confronting Algeria when its gas is more necessary for us than ever before, and when the bad is not the worst. Worst of all, Morocco reeks of weakness, and that’s a recipe that’s guaranteed to be a problem in the future.

And made to surrender Pedro Sánchez also did it in the listening situationinstead of defending the CNI by explaining to independence leaders the justifications why they are being listened to and will continue to be listened to, always with jurisdiction unless they give up on their attempts to break through illegally. In Spain, the president humiliated themselves in front of them and when the investigation affected the rights granted in Article 18 of the Constitution, he fired the director of the CNI, who did nothing but follow the instructions given by the government in the Intelligence Directive. . The government claims the CNI ignores everything when it comes to ordering and receiving their work, and is trying to divert attention to a serious flaw in the security of the presidential telephone… the presidency itself knows Minister Bolaños well. Once again, principles are sacrificed for short-term interests, yes, it pays a high price for humiliating the State and discrediting institutions important to our collective security, such as the National Intelligence Center. And so, a bunch of in-depth research into what happened, beheading, slipping away, while other actors give the impression that they might be aliens? suspected but not brought to light.

And maybe not for nothing, because although Sánchez fears that he will not be able to stay in power if the support of the motley nationalist group that supported his appointment fails, they will not shoot themselves in the foot because they know there is another alternative. it will be worse for them.