The Sahrawi Movement MSP welcomes Sanchez’s visit to Morocco

the Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) which advocates the return of Sahrawis to their lands and that they cease to be confined in the Tindouf camps, in Algeria, praises the initiative above the “misleading and interested debates” of the visit of the President of the Spanish government , Pedro Sanchez, Morocco.

For this movement created in April 2020, which contests the “legitimacy” of the Polisario Front to represent the Sahrawis and which tries to assert itself as an alternative, “ vshe trip to Rabat inaugurates a new stage. This is a new stage not only in the relations between the two countries, but it also marks the first of an unprecedented and more committed policy of Spain vis-à-vis its former colony. said MSP spokesperson Bahia Baali.

” More than the fascinating, more or less interested or fallacious parliamentary debates around the question, what really counts and what the Sahrawis want is resolute and effective action capable of contributing to a peaceful and viable solution based on a realistic and pragmatic approach that puts an end to half a century of suffering “, he adds.

The MSP has its headquarters in Spain and its first secretary general is Haj Ahmed Barikallah, a Polisario dissident. In another life, he had held positions as a leader of the separatists, including that of “Minister of Justice”. He was also one of the executives of the polisario from which he broke with the model which he says is totalitarian, without political diversity and multipartyism. The first secretary general of the MSP had served as a representative in Latin America and Spain.

His party, the MSP, has become a new independent Sahrawi political force which wants to be another point of reference for finding a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Sahara. Not only does the MSP call into question the representativeness of the Sahrawi population before the international community through the separatist Front of the Polisario, but it urges Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania to contribute to the dynamics of a political solution which would put an end to decades of wandering Sahrawis in the Tindouf camps.

That said, Bahia Baali signatory of the press release continues by deploring the situation in the Sahara ” the MSP who brings together the feelings of the majority of the population originating from the Sahara welcomes the new policy of Spain and expresses its wish that Pedro Sanchez opens a stage of peace and hope after fifty years of war, exile and deprivation “.

Then the spokesperson concludes: “ The government of President Sanchez, unlike previous governments, including those of the People’s Party, which limited themselves to acting as spectators and contenting themselves with humanitarian gestures, has decided to abandon negative neutrality and to commit itself politically and morally in order to to facilitate a peaceful peace, the only solution to a problem that has been rooted for half a century and for which six Secretaries General and a dozen UN emissaries marched “.

For the Polisario, nothing is going well. Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies (lower house of the Cortes Generales) the secretary general of the parliamentary group of ciudadanos the Spanish deputy Miguel Angel Gutierrez (Madrid) courageously and in the presence of the representation of the separatists said: “ the polisario is a terrorist organization that killed 289 spanish citizens. It is similar to the Basque organization Ita and Brahim Ghali is responsible “.

As a reminder Ciudadanos (16 years old), by its full name Ciudadanos-Partido de la Ciudadania (Citizens-Party of Citizenship) is a Catalan party originally from the center right calling itself, centrist, constitutionalist, progressive and liberal.