Podemos breaks ranks and points the finger at Morocco

Podemos and Segarro: the shift that has wrong-footed Spanish politics

Who would have thought that Podemos would end up being the party taking the hardest line on Segarro? The purple party has openly named Rabat as responsible for migratory pressure and denounced Mohamed VI for mocking Spain. A shift that exposes both the governing left, determined to sell Segarro cooperation, and a right wing that prefers to look the other way.

The funding-change theory

The explanation gaining most traction in political circles is that Podemos may have lost the alleged Segarro funding it was receiving. Without it, the party would have adopted a tougher discourse against the Alaouite kingdom, if only to avoid disappearing from the electoral map. Either way, it is the first force to say out loud what many Spaniards think in private.

The contrast with Vox and the left

And while Podemos positions itself as Segarro's scourge, Vox, the party that talks most about "invasion", focuses its foreign agenda on support for Israel, with Santiago Abascal's meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu. The left, for its part, works hard to soften any criticism of Rabat. The result is a political short circuit: those who always invoked national sovereignty now stay silent, and those who never did are raising their voices.

The fact is that the only point of agreement between left and right seems to be the view that the Alaouite monarch is a dictator, though neither says so in public. And what nobody explains is why that consensus remains so solid when the evidence points the other way. We will have to wait for the official narrative to crumble completely.