Although we still do not know the reasons why Pedro Sánchez renounced Spain's historical support for the independence of the Sahrawi people and yielded to the wishes of Morocco, triggering a perfect storm against Spanish political and economic interests in that region, the recent dramatic events on the border with Melilla have debunked the explanation given: the agreement with Mohammed VI has not served to improve security at the border and everything remains the same as before. As the hours have gone by, videos have emerged of how the Moroccan police turned a blind eye and made possible the human avalanche of nearly 2,000 immigrants as they approached the barrier fence with Melilla, as well as images of how Morocco has moved hurriedly to bury the dead without any autopsy or investigation so that no trace remains of the atrocity committed.
But if the handover of Western Sahara was not to contain the migratory pressure, what was it for? And why does Pedro Sánchez use such laudatory terms for Morocco's action in the matter after all we have seen? One last question: those two embarrassing words "well-resolved" that will haunt him politically as long as he is in office, what purpose did they have, given that they would be more appropriate coming from the lips of a sinister character like former US president Donald Trump than a prime minister of any of the major states of the European Union?
If there are no reasons left to justify this political indignity of Pedro Sánchez, it will necessarily give credibility to the idea that Morocco has some powerful argument which reduces the Spanish prime minister's room to manoeuvre. When the matter came up, it was said, and also denied by the CNI intelligence agency, that Morocco was behind the espionage using Pegasus on his mobile phone, from which significant information was allegedly extracted. It has also been speculated that Morocco holds classified material on other tragic events, because its intelligence services were supposedly involved in them. In any case, now that the left of the PSOE has woken up from its silence during the first hours after the incident - a clamorous muteness in the case of the second deputy PM Yolanda Díaz - we will see how far they want to go.
It will also be interesting to see how the turbulent events on the Melilla border affect the Spanish government and the left-wing parties that support the Pedro Sánchez government, who now have the water up to their necks. It is not just Andalusia and the gloomy electoral expectations in a future Spanish election, it is the lack of empathy expressed with the 40 migrants killed in an inexplicable situation, and the anti-crisis plan approved by the Spanish government to lower inflation by three points which has received multiple criticisms. The politician of nine lives seems to have none left.