The cloak of silence that continues to surround the terrorist acts attributed to the Polisario in Spain remains largely intact, despite repeated attempts to bring the issue back into the public debate. The conference held on June 18 in Las Palmas, in Spain’s Canary Islands, offered another illustration of this reality. The event received extensive coverage from Morocco’s public media.
Sensing that political winds in Spain may be shifting in favor of a broad right-wing bloc, Polisario leader Brahim Ghali appears to be making overtures to the People's Party (PP) and Vox. In remarks to a conservative Spanish media outlet, Ghali warned of what he described as the threat posed by «Moroccan expansionism» to Spain's continued sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla.