Mohamed VI rejects political pressure from Spain without mentioning Felipe VI's visit to Ceuta and Melilla

In his first public speech after the Ceuta crisis, King Mohamed VI addressed a message from Parliament against “the irresponsible statements of political and media sectors in Spain.” At the opening of the period of sessions after the recent elections, the Moroccan monarch warned that cooperation between both countries should never be the subject of “any pressure, threat or blackmail”, without mentioning the planned visit of Felipe VI to Ceuta and Melilla next week.

At the opening of the legislature, Fátima Ezzahra Mansouri, the prime minister appointed by the king, seems to be moving towards the formation of a center-left coalition government, according to political analysts in the Moroccan press. The leader of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM, centrist and liberal), the most voted in legislative elections in which it obtained 97 of the 395 seats up for grabs, met on Wednesday night with the general secretary of the Istiqlal Party (nationalist), Nizar Baraka, which controls a group of 65 deputies to close a second round of negotiations with the parliamentary political formations.