The diplomacy of the Kingdom of Morocco has decided to break with decades of inertia in the archipelago and is preparing a strategic shift that will shake the foundations of the insular dispute. According to high-level diplomatic sources consulted by this outlet, the neighboring country has already initiated a roadmap to transfer the weight of its official representation to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, leaving behind a stage in Las Palmas that they describe, unequivocally, as an authentic ‘calvary of half a century’. ‘In Las Palmas nobody will miss us,’ pronounced a diplomat last Monday, confirming that discontent with the operability and the environment in the Gran Canarian capital has reached a point of no return. ‘It is the only place in the world with a diplomatic presence of Morocco where a consulate is news, it is unbearable for both the officials there and for our people here,’ said the same source. Moroccan diplomacy has begun to outline a roadmap that promises to alter the institutional balance of the archipelago with a strategic move to the west. The decision to prioritize opening a consulate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is not solely a matter of presence, but stems from a deep exhaustion with its current location in Gran Canaria. Diplomatic sources from Rabat consulted last Monday by Canarymaritime are blunt in describing the situation in the Gran Canarian capital as a true logistical and administrative calvary, going so far as to state with cold pragmatism: ‘In Las Palmas nobody will miss us when the move begins to materialize, decisions are made in Tenerife,’ a diplomatic source from Rabat points out.
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