Sahara: Spanish government's position strengthens after PP vote in Parliament

The Spanish parliament has just strengthened the position of the Sanchez government in favor of the autonomy plan for the settlement of the Sahara conflict, rejecting by an overwhelming majority a draft resolution hostile to Morocco, presented by some pro-independence parties. The People's Party (opposition) has a lot to do with it.
 
The Popular Party (the main formation of the Spanish right and the current opposition) contributed to the victory of the Spanish government in Parliament, by voting against the draft resolution that would have pushed the Spanish Executive to reverse its position in favour of the autonomy plan for the Moroccan Sahara, now considered the only solution to definitively end this conflict, artificially created by the Algerian military regime.
 
With the rejection of this motion by the Spanish Parliament, the government of Pedro Sanchez has emerged "more consolidated and strong" in its recent position and its irreversible support for the autonomy project, especially since the PP has taken up the cause against a draft resolution frankly hostile to Morocco, presented by the Catalan Republican left and Basque pro-independence group Bildu.
 
The novelty lies in the fact that the PP could have given in to political calculations by voting against a government led by its long-time rival: the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). But it preferred the path of reason, of logic and common sense, in order to move forward with the project to resolve this issue that has gone on for too long, since 1975.
 
What does this motion for a resolution say, which was widely rejected by 252 votes against, including those of the PP, 70 for and 11 abstentions? It asks the Spanish government to "return to its new position expressed in a letter (Pedro Sanchez, editor's note) to the King of Morocco on March 23, 2022", with which the president of the Spanish government expressed the willingness of his country to open a new era in its relations with the Kingdom, considering that the Moroccan autonomy plan was in fact the "most serious, realistic and credible basis" for resolving the dispute over the Sahara.
 
The PP's vote is seen as "support and a significant advance in Spain's official position in favour of the autonomy plan", says Moroccan political scientist Abbas El Ouardi. Both the left and the right in Spain now speak the same language on the issue. And this is not insignificant.
 
"It is a strong political act that shows that the PP integrates the process of recognition expressed by the Spanish government on the Moroccan Sahara," says this geopolitical expert.
 
The Popular Party is a Spanish liberal-conservative political party. It was founded in 1989 by Manuel Fraga, a former Franco minister and leader of the conservative right since the return to democracy in the country in 1977. Led by José María Aznar, it won the general elections of 1996 and 2000 and remains one of the most important political parties in Spain.