Beldo, Somar and Podemos called on the Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, to correct his mistake in supporting the autonomy plan for Western Sahara proposed by Morocco, and to return to the traditional position of supporting the Sahrawis’ right to self-determination.
Beldo newspaper spokeswoman Mertex Aispuroa took advantage of Sánchez’s appearance at the plenary session of Congress to demand that “the Sahrawi people must continue to rely on the support that the government has wrongly withdrawn” and that, in her opinion, this only encourages “Morocco’s impunity to continue its illegal occupation” of the region, depriving the Sahrawi people of the right to self-determination.
Against the backdrop of the United Nations Security Council resolution that supports for the first time the Moroccan autonomy plan for the former Spanish colony, Izpuroa promised that they would put pressure on the executive branch to “reconsider,” recalling that they had requested the appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albarez, regarding the Sahara in the hall.
Meanwhile, her counterpart in Somar, Veronica Barbero, warned that Spain, out of “memory and political correctness”, must recognize the “inalienable right of the Sahrawi people” to decide their own future as well as their natural resources, given that the opposite is a “mockery” of European provisions.
He also stressed that the government cannot also celebrate the United Nations Security Council resolution based on the “saying” of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and that the only path to peace is self-determination for Western Sahara.
In turn, Podemos Secretary General Ione Pillara told Sanchez that it was time to correct his support for the Rabat Plan. Moreover, he added that the majority of the Spanish people do not support the president’s position, but rather defend the right to self-determination for the Sahrawi people and stop “submitting to the mandates of the Moroccan dictatorship.”
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