the Morocco Gate “strengthens” the position of Polisario Frontfor which the Sahrawis are most affected Corruption scandal in the European Parliament in their struggle for self-determination and independence. To say it is Brahim GaliPresident of the Western Sahara-based movement currently holding its sixteenth congress roof lain the Saharawi refugee camps who will make the decision step up its armed struggle against the Moroccan army.
“We were convinced that the attitude of the European Parliament was to reject Parliament’s resolutions European Court of Justice There have been those all these years corruption”, the representatives of the Polisario Front explained to Ilfattoquotidiano.it during the summit. L’European Union he signed Agreement on trade, agriculture and fisheries with Morocco, which have been repeatedly rejected by the court because they included the waters of Morocco Western Sahara without the consent of its people. The verdicts proved right for the Polisario Front, the legitimate political representative of the liberation movement, which is now fighting for economic compensation. Kenti BallaMember of the Polisario Front delegation a BrusselsAfter the corruption scandal in the EU Parliament, calls for “not only a judicial, but also a political and moral” verdict against the Moroccan authorities.
Spanish MP Ana Miranda (Bloque nacionalista Galiego), who took part in the vote on all the fisheries agreements, recalled that the 2019 agreement between the EU and Morocco was approved before the Court of Justice’s last ruling in 2021. “There was a lot of pressure to get it approved – he says – There were MEPs who voted on a matter in the commission and changed their mind in plenary. I’m always that Spanish socialists change his mind at the last moment”. The deputy also recalls an incident that happened during a session of Parliament Fisheries Commission2018: at that time he received “Serious insults, with screams” by the representative of Morocco “who said that the Sahara does not exist”. Over the years, they kept knocking on his door Moroccan representatives which the MEP did not want to receive: “Moroccogate did not surprise me. But we need evidence.”
“For many years we did not understand why Western Sahara was an issue on which the European institutions did nothing,” he says Abdeslam OmarPresident of Afapredesa (Association of Relatives of Saharawi Prisoners and Desaparecidos). According to their calculations there is 445 disappearedbut Morocco recognizes only 351. “In the 25 years of emergency resolutions, there have been none on human rights in Morocco and on the situation in Western Sahara, while there have been none on Maghreb countries such as Africa Algeria, Tunisia or Egypt‘, adds the Spanish MEP Miguel Urban (anti-capitalists). For him, “Morocco is the spoiled child of EU foreign policy for its geostrategic position in the Maghreb and for its links with the United States and Europe versus Algeria”. Because of this, it struck him that “Morocco needed corruption. It will be because the regime wanted to keep everything under 100% control.”
For the first time in 25 years, the European Parliament will vote this week on a resolution passed by… left groupon the Action against journalists in Morocco, and especially against it Omar Radi, 36, was sentenced to six years in prison last March. A month ago the proposal, which was favorably supported by the Socialists, would not have been accepted.
In the past, European socialists, and especially the Spanish, have done everything to achieve this Meet Morocco. In October 2021, they even voted for the candidate proposed by vox and brothers of Italy to the Sakharov Prize for human rights, Jeanine Añezformer President of Boliviato prevent the Saharawi activist from being among the finalists Sultana Khaya557 days locked in her house e raped by Moroccan paramilitaries. Urbán recalls that “the voting, which took place electronically for the covid, was suddenly suspended for an hour, after which the Socialists voted in favor of Vox’s candidacy”. The Group of the Left now wants to denounce the case of at least two other journalists imprisoned by Morocco: Toufic BouachrineEditor of the newspaper Akhbar al Youm, sentenced to 15 years in prison in September 2021, and Souleiman RaissouniEditor-in-chief of the same newspaper, sentenced to five years in prison in May 2022.