RTVE has issued a denial following rumors insinuating that it had banned its journalists from covering a demonstration organized on Saturday by the Polisario Front. According to the channel, its statutes do not allow it to "accept trips organized and paid for by interested sources".
Spain continues to play appeasement with Morocco. Journalists from the Spanish public channel TVE have been barred from participating in a professional trip to the Tindouf camps, during which their colleagues from other media will have to interview the leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali , at the origin of the recent diplomatic crisis between the kingdom and its northern neighbor.
The Popular Party (PP) has chosen to constantly attack Sánchez’s government and support Morocco in the crisis that has opened between the two countries after the entry onto Spanish soil of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, confirmed on Wednesday the appointment of the Italian-Swede Staffan de Mistura as personal envoy for the Sahara .
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, says he is concerned about the resumption of hostilities between Morocco and the Polisario Front, saying it is a "major political setback towards obtaining a political solution".
The Office of the Attorney General has agreed to provide the defense of Arancha González Laya in the Ghali affair, as it is already doing for her former right-hand man at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Camilo Villarino. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently indicted for her alleged involvement in the entry and exit of the leader of the Polisario Front, is accused of forgery and use of forgery and receiving stolen goods.
The European Union’s General Court (CJEU) will deliver two important rulings on Wednesday on the applicability of the fisheries and association (trade) agreements concluded in 2019 between Brussels and Morocco in Western Sahara. These decisions could be unfavorable to Morocco and undermine the ongoing dynamic of the resumption of relations with Spain.
The Polisario Front delegate in Spain, Abdulah Arabi, stated that the imminent appointment of Staffan de Mistura as the UN special envoy for Western Sahara represents a "historic opportunity to give the Sahrawi people a voice" through a referendum.
Abdelilah Hifdi, president of the National Federation of Transport (FNT), also president of the CGEM group in the House of Advisors, accuses Algeria and the Polisario of being behind the assassination of two Moroccan drivers in Mali .
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, former Spanish Foreign Minister, advocates good relations between Rabat and Madrid. For him, Morocco and Spain have "overcome" their crisis caused by the Ghali affair.
More is known about the circumstances of the Polisario leader’s departure from Spain. Brahim Ghali had been admitted to the San Pedro de Logroño hospital, under a false identity in April, after contracting Covid-19, and had returned to Algeria under unclear circumstances.
The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, will return to the camps in September, after five months of absence for health reasons related to Covid-19 and complications that required a long convalescence period.