Spain’s New Consul to Morocco Resigns Abruptly Amid Controversy

It is not every day that a diplomat resigns less than a month after his appointment. To all the unanswered questions, the Spanish media El Pais affirms that the Consul would have made statements deemed "inappropriate for a diplomat", and which would have disturbed the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzáles Laya, reports the MAP.

Several Spanish media have gone into details by specifying that the latter would have declared on October 9 last, that Trump was "the sole defender of democracy and freedoms, in the face of the threat posed by the revolutionary Democratic party, ready to establish an autocratic regime".

The former consul of Spain in Rabat would also have made controversial remarks about the European Union, Spanish foreign policy or the PSOE party, specifies the same source.