This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Muhammad Zaruh
The controversy is renewed in the occupied city of Melilla concerning the management of commercial operations with Morocco after the local government led by the Spanish people party has raised doubts about the transparency of export procedures through the customs of Bani Ansar.
These criticisms occurred in the midst of accusations of favoritism by granting export licenses, which have angry the local merchants.
According to the Spanish news agency, Europe Pers accuses the local government of Melilla, the delegate of the central government, Sabrina Mao, belonging to the Party of Socialist workers, to provide unjustified installations to a local businessman, who has led to generalized dissatisfaction with other merchants.
These accusations emerged with the growing concerns of the export monopoly after the reopening of commercial customs between Melilla and Morocco in January fifteen thousand and twenty-five after a closure of five years due to the pandemic of the nineteen of Kofid.
Since the resumption of the export movement, the aforementioned businessman has been able to make five exports to Morocco, which included electrical and mechanical devices and cleaning products, as well as the importation of the first fish shipment for years. However, the local government considered these transactions as an indication of equal opportunities and described the procedures used as unjust, indicating what it considered as a manipulation of the conditions of competition.
In a related context, Miguel Marin, the first vice-president of the Melilla government, expressed his surprise to the limitation of exports to a single businessman, considering this as proof of the absence of transparency in the administration of customs.
Marin stressed that the local government will follow any possible violation, stressing that the government representative has failed to achieve the principle of equal opportunities among all merchants.
For his part, the businessman who benefits from these commercial operations denied any suspicion of preference or favoritism, explaining that he has engaged in all legal conditions and has not obtained any particular privilege.
He also pointed out that the bureaucratic complications of Melilla’s status as a region outside the Spanish peninsula imposed amendments to customs documents, which were able to deal with official procedures.
