Spanish political parties demand a referendum in Western Sahara – Prensa Latina

November 15, 2016, 11:23 amMadrid, 15 nov (PL) Five political parties represented in parliament endorsed today a campaign launched in Spain, which requires the celebration of a long-awaited referendum on self-determination in the Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Morocco.

Under the name #EspañaNoDescoloniza, the campaign was supported by the Spanish Socialist workers Party (PSOE), the leftist coalition United we Can, Compromís, the Democratic Party European of Catalonia and the Basque Nationalist Party.

Representatives of these groups urged the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy to take measures to resolve the situation in the Sahara since the rotating presidency of the Security Council of the United Nations, that he will assume in December.

The State Coordinator of Solidarity Associations with the Sahara called for the fixing of a date for this consultation, endorsed in 1991 by the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (Minurso, for its acronym in French).

in Addition, it requested the monitoring of the respect of human rights in the occupied territories to the realization of such a referendum, a mandate of the Minurso does not have at present.

During a ceremony in front of the headquarters of the Congress of Deputies, the delegate of the Polisario Front in Spain, Jira Boulahi Bad, reported that after 41 years, the process of decolonization was not completed in the proper way.

he Said that the solution to the conflict is because the sahrawi people to choose their destiny in a referendum free, fair, transparent and democratic.

Enric Bataller, deputy of the Compromís, sued the administration of the right-wing Popular Party that is involved in repairing the historic debt that has to support the saharawi population with medical aid and material

His counterpart from United we Can Miguel Bustamante pointed out that you can’t continue to tolerate the violations of human rights perpetrated by Morocco in the occupied territory.

Bustamante said his group will support the initiative both from the institutions as well as in the street, next to the collective of human rights defenders gathered in the Coordinator.

it Is necessary that the saharawi people to reach the freedom they deserve, considered the deputy of the PSOE Odón Elorza.

they All signed a manifesto that calls spur a debate sensible and honest about the need for the Western Sahara abandon its condition of non-autonomous territory through the holding of a referendum of self-determination.

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