The Moroccan interests office in Las Palmas has urged the PSOE leadership to mobilise its media relations representatives to ensure that the crisis in Nueva Canarias does not escalate and to "do their part" to ensure that "an agreement is reached within the party and a break-up is avoided." The reason is that Carmelo Ramírez, the number two in the party, is the head of institutions in Spain in favour of Polisario "and whether we like it or not, for us to continue in that position is favourable to the interests of Rabat in the Sahara because he is an ideal interlocutor," said the president of an association supporting Rabat in the capital of Gran Canaria.
For years, the two parties, Morocco and Polisario, have been providing feedback to each other in the Canary Islands in their points of view and the entities that develop public support plans such as presence in debates benefit because "otherwise, neither one nor the other would ever be news, as it is enough to see what the Transparency Commissioner of the Parliament of the Canary Islands denounced in November 2024 for a certain Sahrawi federation and how Morocco has not gone after them," said the same source.
The crisis in Nueva Canarias could lead to a government crisis in the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, given that there is a critical mayor who is represented in that institution. This Wednesday, the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, leader of Roque Aguayro, said that "at this time there is no proposal for a break-up" but rather "two very different positions on its future." "When a political party does not work with debate, ideas, projects and proposals are not put on the table, including the renewal of its positions, it is said that it acts in the Bulgarian way and that there is no internal democracy," he denounced.
He added that "there is a political organization that is having an internal debate with very different positions, but at this time there is no proposal for a break-up, but rather two different positions that are being debated within their organizations, in their assemblies, on future proposals, but there is no decision that speaks of a break-up with a horizon, deadline or date that allows us to affirm that NC has broken up" since "the debates are healthy and must take place in a calm manner, what happens in a few months will be told to us by reality."
