The latest scandalous exit, concerning Western Sahara, posted by Mr. Pedro Sanchez, the Socialist Head of the Spanish government, should hardly surprise informed observers of the evolution of the political, economic and social situation in Spain, which no longer has anything to do with the progressive positions expressed and defended since the creation of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, in 1879 and which defines itself as “a Spanish political party of center-left social democratic”.
The history of this party is strewn with denials, reversals, even betrayals, which have largely discredited it and reduced it to its elected portion, especially since the departure of Felipe Gonzalez, who led Spain between 1982 and 1996.
Indeed, since 1993, Felipe Gonzalez, was in the middle of his fourth term characterized by a serious political, economic and social crisis. The “movida” was visibly running out of steam. despite the boom years, 1982-1992, when the structural and cohesion funds of the EEC flowed afloat on its new members, from the northern shore of the Mediterranean, such as Spain and Greece, as well as the Portugal.
For its part, neighboring Algeria was faced with barbaric terrorism, which threatened the very foundations of the Algerian state.
Every day, the press of neighboring countries, from the West, East, North and elsewhere, devotes its “unes” to the massacres that were taking place in different Algerian neighborhoods, villages and cities and announces “the coming fall of the Algerian regime”.
But our country, thanks to the heroic resistance of its people and its glorious People’s Army, worthy heir to the NLA, continues to honor its commitments to deliver, within the agreed deadlines, gas, oil and other derivatives, to its customers in the region and around the world, of which Spain, Italy, the United States of America and France were among the main ones.
Moreover, after their failure in Saint Egidio, the supporters and artisans of this process, which the Algerian government rejected “globally and in detail”, according to the historical formula of Mr. Ahmed Attaf, former Algerian MFA, were agitating to gather “a 2nd Saint Egidio”, in Spain, with the blessing of the Spanish socialist authorities, very active within the Socialist International, which was openly hostile to the Algerian government and strongly supported the FFS, helped by the quartet Felipe Gonzalez, President of the Spanish government, Javier Sola, MFA, Joseph Borell, Minister and Miguel Angel Moratinos, DG Africa and Maghreb, then MFA and High Representative of the EU.
But neither the upsurge in the criminal activities of armed terrorists, trained and financially supported by several countries, nor the NATO incentives to the Algerian populations to leave their country to surge en masse on the Spanish coasts, where reception infrastructures had been erected, had tempted Algerians to flee their country massively, in quasi-civil war, in makeshift boats, like our children, brothers and sisters are doing it today while our country enjoys a stability and security that many countries of the North and South envy us.
They had remained worthy and had stoically resisted the barbaric offensives and had beaten the terrorists and their supporters inside and outside the country.
In May 1996, the Felipe Gonzalez page, and his maneuvers within the Socialist International, against our country, which had nevertheless offered him political asylum, in the 1970s, when he was an opponent of the regime of General Franco, was definitively turned, with the triumphant election of José Maria Aznar, President of the Spanish People’s Party, which, like the Spanish Armed Forces, classifies Morocco as “the first threat to Spain in the region”.
The recent position of Pedro Sanchez amply reflects the duplicity and the particularly murky and unhealthy game that has almost always been that of the Spanish Socialists, in particular and other Western European countries, in general, vis-à-vis our country, whose immense territory and the riches of its subsoil, its exclusive economic zone marine and space have always been the object of covetousness on the part of its neighbors. Unlike Morocco, known for the vassalage of its leaders towards the West today dominated and led by Joe Biden’s America, more domineering and arrogant than ever, as it does against Russia, China and Iran in particular.
Rabah Toubal, retired diplomat and writer, https://www.facebook.com/rabah.toubal.75
