A participant of the Sahara marathon drinks water next to a post of the Polisario front February 28 near Tindouf (Algeria). BORJA SUAREZ (Portal)
The representative of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdulá Arabi, has expressed his confidence that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “translates into facts” the expressed rejection of the decision of the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to support him. to support the plan for Moroccan autonomy for Western Sahara and to reverse this turn in Spanish foreign policy when he becomes president after the July 23 elections.
In an interview with Europa Press, Arabi criticized Sánchez’s “unilateral” decision to turn to “the option proposed by Morocco”, an autonomy for the Sahara, which the government president described as “the most solid, credible and realistic basis” for solving the historic conflict in the letter he sent to Moroccan monarch Mohamed VI in March 2022. sent.
The representative of the Polisario in Spain indicated that it had a “dialogue” with all political parties, including the PP, whose congress it attended in Seville in 2022, when Feijóo was elected president. During the meetings with the population, their public statements and the parliamentary initiatives that they supported both in Congress and in the Senate “expressed their rejection of this turn of events by the governor”, he recalled.
“Words and Deeds”
These “words,” according to Arabi, must be translated into “deeds,” i. “Our condition is that this decision be reversed and that the path of international law be reverted to. That hasn’t happened yet and we’re going to continue like this,” he said. Although he acknowledged that they continue to “try to maintain some dialogue in the hope that the PSOE will return to the resolutions of its last congress, which are about defending the self-determination of the Sahrawi people and defending the rule of law.” framework of the United Nations as the best solution for Western Sahara”.
Arabi did not want to show any interest in a party’s election victory. “Besides assessing who we want to govern or not, we will always require that the government on duty knows that Spain is the managing power of the territory of Western Sahara and as such has a responsibility and duties he must abide by,” stressed he.
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