Shaheed El-Hafed, 30 November 2025 (SPS) – Member of the National Secretariat, President of the National Council, Mr. Hamma Salama, affirmed Saturday during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Council, that its establishment marked a decisive turning point in the history of the Sahrawi people. It embodied the final rupture with the Spanish colonizer, its symbolic institutions, and the conspiracy of partition that Spain sought to impose in coordination with expansionist regimes in the region through the infamous Madrid Accords.
He pointed to the declaration by the vast majority of members of the Spanish State’s General Assembly of their dissolution through the “Guelta Document” and the formation of the Provisional Sahrawi National Council on 28 November 1975, announcing their adherence to the Polisario Front as the sole legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people.
Mr. Hamma Salama also emphasized that the birth of the Provisional Sahrawi National Council constituted a national response to the infamous Madrid Accords, which sought to confiscate the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence.
The member of the National Secretariat stressed that “the passage of 50 years since the founding of the National Council is an opportunity to highlight the role of the legislative institution in the struggle for liberation and construction that the Sahrawi people are waging, as well as the efforts made by the Popular Front and the Sahrawi State to develop this institution throughout different historical stages, enabling it to complete its structures and fulfill its duties in oversight, legislation, and monitoring the work of the executive body—thus ensuring the complementarity required for the success of various planned programs, the achievement of the major goals of the national action program, the implementation of constitutional provisions, and the follow-up to the application of regulations, laws, procedures, and plans.”
The President of the National Council also addressed the role of parliamentary diplomacy in advocating for the national cause in various international forums, establishing friendship and solidarity committees with regional and national parliaments across countries and continents, confronting Moroccan occupation, exposing its colonial policies in the occupied territories, and documenting its violations of human rights and international law.
He affirmed that commemorating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Sahrawi National Council is an occasion to renew the pledge to the comrades who have served in this institution over the years. It is proof of the continuity of the struggle and institutional building and a reaffirmation of the determination to continue on the path of resistance until the sovereignty of a free and independent Sahrawi state is fully achieved over all its national territory.
