On 19 November 2018, Pedro Sanchez publicly offered Morocco participate in a project With Spain to organize the World Cup. As the diplomatic tensions between the two countries escalated, the idea was faltering. The Spanish federation joined Portugal and, with the support of their respective governments, as well as UEFA, they focused on shaping an Iberian candidacy that was formally submitted in October 2020. Now, the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, has declared that Morocco. Participating in the candidacy of Spain and Portugal for the 2030 World Cup, a project whose continuity in Ukraine is in doubt. The federations of the three countries concluded an agreement that received the approval of their respective governments.. An important detail in the case of Spain, given the recent diplomatic tensions both countries have maintained.
In 2021, this joint candidacy was unthinkable. Spain and Morocco essentially suspended bilateral relations. The Rabat Government was enraged after Spain decided to provide medical assistance to the leader of the Polisario Front in Logroño. Ibrahim Gali, at war with Morocco. I was sick of Covid.
Ceuta crisis
Shortly after, about 8,000 people, most of them minors, entered Spain illegally across the Ceuta border. It was the largest irregular entry of people into Spain. Moroccan authorities allowed it.
Tensions with its North African neighbor began to cool over a year ago. Pedro Sánchez, King of Morocco VI, to express his support for Spain’s plan to incorporate Western Sahara into the Kingdom of Morocco in an autonomous regime. Spain’s neutrality towards the Sahara conflict for more than half a century
Sánchez wrote that this was the “most realistic, serious and credible” plan to resolve the conflict.. The Alaouite kingdom was satisfied, ordered the ambassador to return to his post in Madrid, and began negotiations to resolve all disputes between the two countries: the territorial waters between Morocco and the Canary Islands, the control of the flow of immigrants or the reopening of the borders Ceuta and Melilla for people and goods, yet to be obtained. something undelivered.
dual summit
The culmination of this new diplomatic rapprochement came on February 1 and 2 at the much anticipated summit between the governments of Spain and Morocco. A dozen ministers from both countries met in Rabat and held hours-long meetings to settle pending bilateral issues. The appointment, however, was tainted by the Moroccan King’s sit-in to the Spanish president.. Sánchez appeared before the press in front of a huge photo of Mohammed VI, but remained at his vacation home in Gabon.
All parliamentary groups except the PSOE demanded an explanation from the Government for the reasons for Sánchez’s surprise return. They ask why this radical change was made without notice to Congress.and exactly what Spain got in return. The Sahara issue is very politically sensitive: it is not for nothing that it is a former Spanish province occupied by Morocco in 1975 with the so-called “green march”. With the candidacy, the good fit now extends to the football field for the 2030 World Cup.