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In the middle of next January, the Polisario is getting ready to celebrate its sixteenth congress. Anyone can imagine the result already in advance, which is repeated every three or four years with the same scenario and the same staging»writes Hach Ahmed Bericalla, first secretary general of the Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP)
“A congress composed of delegates, mostly military and women, previously selected through documents and resolutions prefabricated months before by the Preparatory Committee, composed of senior officials and members of the political leadership. The latter’s re-election to Congress will also not hold any big surprises, given the derivative imposition of tribal quotas that is usually projected in the final vote. In short, everything calculated in the North Korean style»details the former Polisario member.
“The presence and intervention in the inaugural act of foreign guests, mostly from solidarity groups close to the Spanish far left, as well as its peripheral nationalisms or independence movements, are part of the planned scenario. They are less and less numerous and representative, but yes, very ostentatious. Everyone will march into the speakers’ gallery to give the event a supposed international dimension and show that the stalled liberation process is accumulating growing universal support.”he revealed.
“No one will blame the outgoing and incoming political leadership, which is generally the same, for the clumsy decision regarding the breaking of the ceasefire and its disastrous consequences on the ground. We will forget that the so-called liberated territory has ceased to exist.he added, demonstrating that the leaders of the Polisario “will not speak either of the insecurity and the deterioration of living conditions inside the camps or the frustration of the young people who live there, and even less of the diplomatic setbacks or the failure of the umpteenth special envoy of the UN.”
“The Polisario (…) was frozen in time” following the death of its former promoters, for example Colonel Gaddafi, whose only legacy linked to this issue is the multiplicity of refugee camps, improvised around Tindouf, in addition to the system of grassroots and general committees and congresses inspired by the Libyan model.
