Podemos points to the Pegasus theory to explain Pedro Sánchez‘s complacency with Morocco, that is, the thesis that Rabat was the one who carried out the espionage on the mobile phones of the president and three other ministers, which was denounced in 2022, and as a result of that operation now has sensitive or compromising information that conditions the decisions of the head of the Executive.
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The purple party has been wondering for some time “what Sánchez owes to Morocco,” but Ione Belarra pointed out this Saturday that “perhaps he has too much information about the president,” giving an answer that leads to the Pegasus theory, which PP and Vox have been hammering for some time, and which has also come from other spokespersons of parliamentary partners of the Government during this summer’s appearances to try to understand why during the Ceuta crisis the Government has defended Morocco and has been exculpating it.
In an intervention before the State Citizens’ Council of Podemos, Belarra questioned why the Government does not take strong actions against Morocco and “why it does not want to break relations with a totalitarian country that violates human rights.” “Because perhaps he has too much information about the president,” the purple leader answered herself, “because perhaps we want them to continue doing the most violent and dirtiest work at the borders.”
The leader of Podemos warned Sánchez that in Ceuta “the so-called socialist Government is digging its own grave” and all, she emphasized, “because they are afraid of Morocco.”
Regarding the consequences of the crisis, Belarra lashed out at the Executive for having turned Ceuta into “a large open-air prison” and for thinking that “punishing migrants” is punishing Morocco. That is why she warns of consequences for the future of the Executive.
“Today all friends of the United States around the world, and Morocco is one, think they can do whatever they want, like trying to keep Ceuta to control the Strait of Gibraltar, because they have the United States behind them. If the Government and the European Union had a little geopolitical vision, they would realize that strengthening sovereignty, institutional presence, and public services in Ceuta, incorporating Ceuta into all the official mechanisms from which it is excluded, is the best strategic decision they could make. That and opening legal and safe routes for migration, to take away Morocco’s violent power at the border,” Belarra demanded.
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The meeting of the State Citizens’ Council of Podemos inaugurates the political course for the purples. A course that brings general elections and regional and municipal elections. Belarra ventures that the general elections will be in the early months of 2027.
“Their plan is to present Budgets knowing that they do not have the support to pass them and, when they fall, use that as an excuse to call elections,” she said, “a somewhat shabby move” although she believes it is better than doing so dragged by corruption or the Ceuta crisis.
Against those elections “at the beginning of next year,” Belarra again distanced the options of approaching the alliance that Sumar represents today, reaffirming that what is needed is “a brave, strong left that is not afraid to say what needs to be said when it is easy and, above all, when it is difficult.” Characteristics that she does not attribute in any case to the Government’s minority partner.
Regarding the accounts, she reiterated her party’s rejection: “Pedro Sánchez cannot count on Podemos’ votes for Budgets that make the largest rearmament in our country’s history definitive.”
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