Polisario Front Dismisses Moroccan King’s Speech as Deceptive Amid Pegasus Spyware Controversy

In a statement from the "Minister of Information, official spokesman of the government", "SADR" notes that King Mohammed VI’s speech "was dominated by the effects of the cyberspy scandal (Pegasus affair, editor’s note) in which Morocco would be involved, of which neighboring countries, political, judicial and media personalities, even some of its traditional allies, have not been spared, in addition to those who preceded them in the use by the Moroccans of human weapons in the extortion operations they have carried out, against its neighborhood and its regional environment". According to it, the sovereign "has tried to justify this scandal in various ways, even by playing the role of the victim in the face of the situation of isolation that began to unfold day after day, especially after the normalization [...] and the fall [...] into the arms of the Zionist occupier, and what had become the expansionist and hostile policy of the kingdom against the hopes and aspirations of the peoples of the region in security, stability and integration".

"Among them, these policies that have become the subject of condemnation and denunciation by many countries, political figures and human rights organizations," says "SADR", stressing that King Mohammed VI, in his speech, tried to deceive domestic opinion that it is a major conspiracy hatched against his country. The royal speech "was also characterized by more rejection, intransigence and secrecy in order not to yield to international legitimacy and the embodiment of its decisions concerning the granting to the Sahrawi people of its right to exercise its sovereignty over the whole of its territory, and in a language imbued with arrogance and secrets in rebellion against the decisions of the UN and African Union bodies," the same source also notes.