Pedro Sánchez Jokes About Morocco Blackmail Suspicions: “It’s Like UFOs”
Does Morocco have compromising information about Pedro Sánchez? Asked on Spanish television Thursday evening whether the kingdom might have leverage over him, the prime minister responded with humor, referring to UFOs and the contents of his mobile phone.
Appearing on Thursday, November 12, on “El perro andaluz,” broadcast by Spanish public channel La 1, Pedro Sánchez took part in comedian Manu Sánchez’s customary confessional. The host asked him a particularly direct question: “Does Morocco have anything on Pedro Sánchez that would give it leverage over him?”
“It’s like UFOs,” the Spanish prime minister replied immediately. In this segment broadcast by RTVE, he went on to detail what was on his phone, at the center of questions about his relations with Morocco.
“My phone has photos with my family, work messages, but nothing that endangers state security,” he said. Pedro Sánchez extended the joke, adding: “I don’t have any information about UFOs.”
The question harks back to the Pegasus affair, revealed in May 2022. The Spanish government announced at the time that Pedro Sánchez’s phones and those of several ministers had been spied on using the software. Spanish media had raised the possibility of Morocco’s involvement, amid serious diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
In June 2022, information attributed to Spain’s National Intelligence Centre (CNI) had ruled out the risk of Pedro Sánchez being blackmailed using the hacked data. Four years later, the Spanish leader chose humor to answer this lingering question publicly.
