In the wake of the Spanish PM Sánchez’s acquiescence to Morocco’s pretensions over the Western Sahara, which represented a historic reversal of Spain’s position on this issue, some outlets are now suggesting that the letter quoted by Rabat—in which Spain’s change of course had been communicated—does not actually exist.
Some suggest that the letter would have been formulated by the Moroccan government itself, and simply ratified by Spain after the fact.
This theory rests on the fact that its change in policy was not initially announced by Spain, but by the Moroccan government, and that Sánchez cannot specify when this official communique was sent, nor has the letter ever been presented in full to the public.
Further possible background involves the theory that Sánchez has been personally blackmailed by Morocco, given that his mobile phone was hacked and, according to an EU’s investigative commission on the use of Pegasus software, the culprit may have been the Moroccan intelligence service.
And yet, this would only have been a catalyst for Sanchez to take an admittedly large step in a direction which his party had been going since at least the Zapatero administration: subordinating Spanish interests to those of Morocco.
In this sense, then, whether the PM’s government produced the letter or if it was dictated by Rabat amounts to a distinction without a difference, except to highlight the degree to which the socialist party has surrendered Spanish sovereignty.
