Polisario denounces the extension of Moroccan elections in Western Sahara

The representative of the Polisario in Algeria, Brahim Ghali has described as ...serious provocation... the extension in Western Sahara of Moroccan elections

• The representative of the Polisario in Algeria, Brahim Ghali has described as “serious provocation” the extension in Western Sahara of Moroccan elections, which constitutes a “threat” to “regional stability”.
  
      These elections represent “a serious provocation, a threat to security and stability in the region and an obvious challenge to the UN Charter and the cooperation of the Sahraoui,” said Thursday evening in Algiers Mr. Ghali in the forum of “channel II of the Algerian Public Radio.
  
      Morocco is trying to “push the situation towards escalation” in organizing the elections in Western Sahara in the context of municipal elections held Friday in Morocco, he added.
  
      Denouncing “the silence of the United Nations,” Mr. Ghali, quoted by the Algerian press agency APS, said that the lack of reaction from the UN would be “an implicit complicity unacceptable by the international logic.”
  
      The Polisario leader Mohamed Abdelaziz called on Monday UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “intervene urgently”" to prevent the spread of local elections in Morocco in Western Sahara.
  
      Moroccans began voting Friday to elect nearly 28,000 municipal councillors, including Western Sahara, former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975 by proposing a plan for broad autonomy under its sovereignty, rejecting any independence.
  
      The Polisario claims rather a self-determination referendum in which independence would be one of the options.
  
  Ennaharonline/ afp