The mayor of Algeciras laments that the agreement on Gibraltar “remains a secret”

Algeciras (Cádiz).- The mayor of Algeciras (Cádiz) and president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, José Ignacio Landaluce (PP), has lamented that the agreement on Gibraltar “remains a secret” and that the Campo de Gibraltar region is “the stone guest in the negotiations”.
Landaluce made these statements in a statement referring to an “informal conversation” revealed between the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and the Attorney General of the British colony, Michael Llamas, in which both discuss the document of the future treaty.
“Our suspicions are confirmed that the truth about the Gibraltar agreement will continue to be a secret for those of us who share territory day by day, and it is also confirmed that the Campo de Gibraltar region is the stone guest in the negotiations,” Landaluce asserted.
The mayor and senator recalled the multiple occasions on which the region has been demanding to know the content, first of the “political agreement” and then of the progress that may have been made in drafting the agreement itself.
“All we have received from the officials of the Spanish Government, mainly from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, have been calls for calm and promises that work was being done on a document that would satisfy Spain’s interests, but it is clear that these messages only aim to distract to buy time without informing about the true content of the agreements adopted between the European Union and the United Kingdom,” he stated.
The popular leader said that “knowing of the existence of the text referred to by Picardo and Lamas, and in the total absence of a position on this matter, everything points to the fact that its content, laid out in 250 pages and seven parts, seems to fully satisfy their demands, which are mostly completely opposed to the shared benefit we claim from the Campo de Gibraltar”.
“We would have liked the unwavering commitment of the British Government to the people of Gibraltar referred to by Picardo to have been matched by the Spanish Government with the Campo de Gibraltar, but all we have received are small nuances that do not clarify the truly important issues that will mark the economic future of a region that has lived in the shadow of a colony and that, in the case of a bad agreement, may continue to be at a disadvantage,” he assured.
The mayor of Algeciras concluded by “appealing to the need to know the same as the rest of the parties know, no more and no less, because it is our future and that of future generations that is at stake”. (October 24)