Spanish Far-Right Party Vox Urges Government to Secure Moroccan Recognition of Ceuta and Melilla

In a proposal to Congress, Vox is asking the Sanchez Executive to work "diplomatically" for the "explicit and unconditional" recognition by Morocco of Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Chafarinas Islands, the Al Hoceima rocks and Vélez de la Gomera and the islet of Perejil.

Morocco has always claimed these territories geographically located in North Africa, recalls the president of the far-right formation, Santiago Abascal, stressing that these claims have no legal basis. "The Spanish sovereignty over all these territories is expressly recorded in Article 3 of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of April 26, 1860, concluded between Spain and Morocco," argues the Vox leader.

Abascal denounces Morocco’s desire to annex these territories that are an integral part of the Spanish territory, long before the creation of the kingdom as an organized society in 1956. According to him, King Mohammed VI "takes advantage of the weakness" of Sanchez’s government and the "absence of a firm foreign policy of Spain to realize his desires".