Congress refuses to ask the Government to seek diplomatically for Morocco to recognize Ceuta and Melilla

Vox's proposal has only had the support of the PP, although its spokesperson had considered it unnecessary

MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies has rejected Vox's proposal to ask the Government to try to achieve through diplomacy that Morocco recognize the Spanishness of Ceuta and Melilla and the rest of the territories in North Africa.

Only the PP has voted in favor of the proposal, despite the fact that its spokesperson in the debate had considered it unnecessary, something with which the PSOE had also agreed. Finally, the non-law proposal has been rejected by 20 votes against and only 14 in favor.

Those of Santiago Abascal wanted Congress to ask the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to promote "diplomatically" the "explicit and unreserved" recognition by Morocco of Spanish sovereignty over the two autonomous cities, as well as over the Chafarinas islands, the rocks of Alhucemas and Vélez de la Gomera and the islet of Perejil.

In its statement of reasons, which has been reiterated by its spokesman, Alberto Asarta, during the debate, Vox defends that the Moroccan "aspirations" over these Spanish territories lack a "legal" basis, since they are part of Spain "for all purposes" and before the formal constitution of Morocco as a State in 1956.

In this sense, Asarta has disfigured the "futile hope" of the Spanish Government that Morocco abandons its assertive policy and its statements in which it maintains that Ceuta and Melilla are "usurped cities" as well as the "bumps" of the Executive in its relationship with the Alaouite kingdom.

According to the Vox spokesman, if Rabat behaves as it does, it is thanks to the "absence of a firm foreign policy on the part of the successive governments" of both the PP and the PSOE towards the neighboring country, claiming that what the Executive should do is "defend without ambiguity" all these territories and also protect the Spaniards who reside in them or are deployed there.

The PP had presented an amendment, which Vox has refused to accept, by which they asked to replace the proposed text with another that called for "adopting as many measures as necessary to guarantee the existence of a model of social, economic and political sustainability" in all these territories.

In his speech, the PP spokesman, Fernando Adolfo Gutiérrez Díaz de Otazu, stressed that "Spain does not need any official recognition of an indisputable fact" such as Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish and "there is no doubt about it."

That said, he added, "Morocco can publicly express whatever it wants" but its statements "are irrelevant from the field of international politics" and that they are aimed above all "for internal consumption."

For his part, the PSOE spokesman, Arnau Ramírez, has agreed with the PP spokesman, arguing that Vox's non-legal proposal was "gratuitous and unnecessary." "The signed agreements already recognize the territorial integrity of Spain", he stressed.

The socialist deputy has defended that there is no one in Spain who believes that "there is the slightest possibility that the territorial integrity of Spain is in danger, especially Ceuta and Melilla", neither now, nor in a year or five years from now .

In Ramírez's opinion, Vox's proposal "is part of the far-right initiatives to define a type of policy" so that citizens know them "as a party that defends the unity of Spain with the so-called manliness" because "the left" do not.

"It makes no sense or utility, the territorial integrity of our country is not at risk, it makes no sense for us to ask Morocco to recognize it," he added. "We do not have to ask permission from anyone, not even from Morocco, to continue being Spain," he finished, making Vox ugly that he only seeks to "sell tin patriotism."

In a heated debate, in which there have been several scuffles between groups, in particular between Vox and Podemo and which have caused several interruptions, other non-legal proposals have also been approved.

Among those that have come forward is one presented by the PSOE which asks the Government to support within the EU the inclusion of the Wagner Group and other entities financed by Russia on its list of terrorist organizations for violations of the Human Rights that your mercenaries have committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

In addition, the Government is also urged to continue "reiterating its unwavering support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders" and to maintain "comprehensive support for Ukraine in all legitimate defense actions that allow the protection of its population and its territory", while continuing to "encourage the process of Ukraine's integration into the EU in accordance with the procedures and the majority aspiration of the Ukrainian people".

During the debate on this non-legal proposal, the PP spokesman, Pablo Hispán, made ugly the fact that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, did not appear before the commission to report on what the Government is doing with respect to to the "greatest crisis that Europe is experiencing" and has attributed it to the "internal battle" in the Executive regarding this issue.