After a trip to Madrid, the Secretary-General of Morocco’s Socialist Union of Popular Forces announced that his party filed a complaint against Spain’s far-right movement Vox. The information was later debunked by a Moroccan lawyer, who lodged the complaint in question as head of an association based in Spain.
To Vox all conservative voices count. The Spanish right-wing party has presented candidates who served in the army to run for Spain’s general elections, to take place on April the 28th. The rise of these conservative candidates might be considered as a threat for both Spain and Morocco.
According to Spanish far-right party, operating in Andalusia, Islamic fundamentalism is a real threat to the province. However, numbers suggest that people arrested between 2012 and December 2018 for jihadist terrorism in Andalusia represent only 5% of the total figure in Spain.
While in Melilla, the leader of the People’s Party rendered homage to the Spanish army, especially soldiers who died in the battle of Anoual.