In his meeting with Ajanuch, he pledges to maintain a “reliable” foreign policy based on “parliamentary consensus”

ROTTERDAM, 31 (From the special envoy of Europa Press, Marisa Piqueras)

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will travel to Morocco this fall after accepting the invitation that the Prime Minister of Morocco, Aziz Ajanuch, has sent him in person during the meeting that both have held in Rotterdam, within the framework of the Party Congress European People’s Party (EPP).

During the meeting, which ended this Monday, Feijóo explained his intention to maintain a relationship of “neighborliness and loyalty” with Morocco, as well as his desire to carry out a “reliable” foreign policy, in which any agreement be carried out with “transparency” and “seek parliamentary consensus”, according to sources from his team.

“We are going to carry out a serious and rigorous foreign policy, with transparent and lasting agreements,” Feijóo himself assured on Twitter at the end of that meeting with Ajanuch, with whom he opened his bilateral agenda in Rotterdam, given that his party , the National Association of Independents (RNI), is an associate member of the European People’s Party.

Sources close to Feijóo have indicated that during that interview the Prime Minister of Morocco has asked him up to three times to travel to his country, an invitation that the leader of the PP has accepted and that he is willing to carry out this autumn with the objective of “strengthening neighborly ties between the two countries with loyalty and sincerity”.

In his first international trip since he was elected leader of the PP in April, Feijóo has taken advantage of this conclave to hold more than a dozen meetings with European leaders –such as the president of the European Commission, Urusula von der Leyen– and leaders such as the Moroccan Prime Minister, who is attending this meeting in the Dutch city as a guest.

This meeting between Feijóo and Ajanuch takes place two months after the change of position in Western Sahara by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which the Alaouite country has applauded. In fact, last March, the Moroccan Prime Minister welcomed Spain’s support for the autonomy plan for Western Sahara and praised King Mohamed VI’s diplomatic “insightful management”.

In statements to the media before that meeting, Feijóo had already advanced that he would convey to the Prime Minister of Morocco in this “important bilateral” his will to maintain a “reliable policy” and “rebuild a foreign policy based on trust.”

According to Feijóo, the intention of the PP is to “strengthen” commitments and ties of neighborliness, reciprocity, honesty and loyalty between Morocco and Spain”. In this sense, it has opted for a “reliable policy” with Morocco”.

“First of all, we are not going to deceive you. Second, we are never going to be disloyal to that country. And third, we are going to try to rebuild a foreign policy based on trust and parliamentary consensus in Spain,” he added.

“CLANDESTINE LETTER”

When expressly asked what the PP’s position is on Western Sahara, the president of the PP pointed out that he cannot have “a position until he knows exactly what his country has agreed to.”

After Sánchez’s letter to Mohamed VI including the change of position, Feijóo stressed that “the problem of the Sahara cannot be solved with a clandestine letter” but rather with “light, stenographers, transparency and international agreements” which is, in his opinion, trial, “the opposite of what the Government has done” by Pedro Sánchez.

“Within the scope of the UN resolutions we can agree on many things. Outside the UN resolutions, the pacts are not going to produce international effects and the important thing is that Morocco feels comfortable in relations with Spain,” said the president of the ‘popular’.

Feijóo has pointed out that the Moroccan prime minister is “a good friend of Spain who is very interested in knowing the position” of the PP. Party sources have also indicated that the Moroccan ambassador to Spain has also shown interest in meeting with the leader of the PP and both have agreed to meet after the Andalusian elections on June 19.

“FOREIGN POLICY IS NOT AN OCCURRENCE”

Asked later if the autonomy of the Sahara is the most realistic solution seeing that the conflict has become entrenched, Feijóo has reiterated that they do not know “exactly what Sánchez defends because he has not explained it” and they only know that he sent a “unilateral” letter to the monarch Alaoui

“We have to return to seriousness in foreign policy, which is not an occurrence,” he emphasized, to underline that there is a “contradiction” between what is written in the letter and what is said publicly afterwards. In his view, this issue requires “transparency” and cannot be resolved with a “clandestine letter” because “secrecy causes more tension and more uncertainty.”