Spanish Opposition Demands Foreign Minister’s Resignation Over Polisario Leader Controversy

Through the voice of its Secretary General, Teodoro García Egea, the party demanded the "immediate" resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for her "catastrophic" handling of the Brahim Ghali affair and the lack of communication on the arrival in Spain and the departure of the leader of the Polisario Front.

"I believe that the Minister of Foreign Affairs must resign immediately. This case has generated a diplomatic crisis of the first order with Morocco and the government has shown that it has no weight in foreign policy," García Egea said in an interview with TVE reported by Europa Press. Ghali’s departure was also handled "with obscurantism," observes García Egea, who maintains that the government has made a "disastrous management of this affair."

The leader of the Polisario Front was admitted in April to the hospital in Logroño, Spain under a false identity. Accused of torture, genocide, rape and kidnapping, he appeared on Tuesday, June 1 by videoconference before the National High Court, before leaving Spain, heading to Algeria.