(ANSA) – MADRID, MARCH 26 – Nearly 2,000 people demonstrated in Madrid today to show their support for Western Sahara and demand self-determination for the former Spanish colony, a few days after the Spanish government’s turn in favor of Morocco on theme.
“Sanchez, traitor”, “The Sahrawis decide, they are not your bargaining chip”, “The Sahara is not for sale”, some of the writings on the placards carried in the square contesting the decision of the Socialist Prime Minister Sanchez to suddenly support the plan defended by Rabat on the disputed territory of Western Sahara, thus ending a diplomatic expulsion of almost a year.
The conflict in Western Sahara, considered a “non-autonomous territory” by the UN, has seen Morocco opposed for decades against the separatists of the Polisario Front supported by Algiers. Rabat, which controls almost 80% of this territory, proposes an autonomy plan under its sovereignty while the Polisario calls for a self-determination referendum, scheduled at the time of the signing of the ceasefire in 1991 but never materialized. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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