Moroccan autonomy plan: Rabat plays the last card amid legal and political impasse

Moroccan autonomy plan: Rabat plays the last card amid legal and political impasse

✍️ 𝓑𝔂: 𝓓𝓻. 𝓗𝓪𝓷𝓪

𝓐𝓵𝓰𝓲𝓮𝓻𝓼 – 𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – The Makhzen of Morocco now find themselves in a trap of their own making. Its so-called autonomy plan is no more than a few flimsy pages, but it has reached the point where it must be hastily expanded, rewritten and superficially rebranded to appease growing international scrutiny. According to information reported by Africa Intelligence, a subscription-based news organization said to be close to Moroccan and French intelligence circles, Rabat has accelerated the drafting of the revised document. When you access the full text, you can clearly see the depth of the impasse that the Makhzen side has fallen into.

By rushing to produce the document demanded by the international community, Morocco has only confirmed its diplomatic isolation and inability to propose a credible political solution. Makuzen has revised, renamed, and repurposed the story, but it remains trapped in a reality it cannot escape. Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory whose future cannot be resolved through unilateral instruments or delaying tactics, but only through a free, transparent and internationally monitored referendum on self-determination, in accordance with international law.

Rabat cannot define, fabricate, or herald Saharawi representation. No hastily prepared “document”, no matter how embellished, can hide this fundamental impossibility. Speed ​​cannot replace legality, and the accumulation of documents cannot erase simple legal truths. That is, the Saharawi people have never exercised their inalienable right to self-determination.

The Moroccan regime is now insisting on the urgent need to create a new autonomy plan, as if rushing to invalidate the law and repeating it could nullify the legal reality. As long as the right to self-determination is denied, any unilateral initiative is not a genuine political solution but a colonial maneuver.

While Rabat speaks of “Sahrawi representation,” Sahrawi populations in refugee camps and occupied territories are deliberately excluded and silenced through repression, imprisonment, and permanent surveillance. It targets local representatives elected by vote organized under military occupation, despite the clarity of international law. That is, an occupying power cannot generate political legitimacy or popular consent. This supposed representation is nothing but an administrative fiction fabricated by the palace and verified by its safeguards.

Ironically, Sahrawi leaders are turning Rabat’s case against them. By accepting Morocco’s autonomy plan as an option in the self-determination referendum, they have exposed the structural evils of the Makhzen. Accepting such an option would mean recognizing that Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara is neither established nor unconditional, but depends entirely on the free choice of the Saharawis – the very ruling that Rabat has refused to accept for more than half a century.

The timing even betrays the intention. This “bizarre document” was hastily drafted by authors drawn from the narrow inner circle of palace and Makhzen diplomacy, without stakeholder consultation, transparency or international mandate, ahead of a critical UN deadline. This is not a political project, but a diversionary tool aimed at buying time and blurring legal lines.

In effect, this article is fundamentally inconsistent with international law. True autonomy cannot be guaranteed in a feudal system where power is monopolized by the monarch, justice is instrumentalized, fundamental freedoms are suppressed, and Saharawi human rights defenders languish in prison. Autonomy cannot be forced under occupation. It must be freely chosen. We cannot exist in a system that denies popular sovereignty and criminalizes dissent.

Makhzen seeks to impose autonomy without self-determination, representation without people, and legitimacy without law. This construction is doomed to failure. It neither complies with United Nations resolutions nor respects the fundamental principle of the right of peoples to self-determination.

Let me be clear: Western Sahara will not be annexed through a communiqué or confiscated through a unilateral document. The Saharawi people have already decided on important issues. The future of the Saharawi will not be negotiated in the hallways of palaces, but will be decided through the ballot box in a free and truly internationally supervised referendum.

Everything else is propaganda, malice, and a prolongation of colonial realities that will sooner or later be wiped out by international law.

Translated from:

https://lapatrienews.dz/plan-dautonomie-marocain-rabat-abat-ses-ultimes-cartes/

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📡🌍 | 𝓐𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 🌍📡
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𝓰𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓐𝓵𝓰𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓶, 𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷 𝓐𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓲𝓬, 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓱, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓔𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱. 𝓦𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 📈 500,000 𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓬𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓼, 𝓲𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓵𝓾𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂.

𝓐𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓡𝓮𝓹𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓬’𝓼𝓟𝓻𝓲𝔃𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓯𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓬 22, 2022), 𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓣𝓾𝓫𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓰𝓷𝓲𝔃𝓮𝓭 .

𝓱𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓓𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱:
🔴 600,000+ 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓣𝓾𝓫𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓼
🔵 6 𝓶𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷+𝓯𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓕𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴
📸 70,000+ 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶

𝓞𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓸𝓼, 𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰:
⚽ 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓼 | 𝓔𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 | 𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓷 | 𝓒𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓭Follow𝓹𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓼 , 𝓫𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼, 𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮, 𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓬𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽.

𝓰 𝓘𝓽𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓽 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂, “𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽、”𝓮𝓷𝓳𝓸𝔂𝓼 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 50,000 𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓷𝓵𝓸𝓪𝓭𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮—𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶’𝓼𝓶𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹.

𝓗𝓸𝓷𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪 𝓛𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓜𝓸𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓛𝓪â𝓰𝓪𝓫, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓗𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓼, 𝓓𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓣𝓾𝓫𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓵𝓾𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓽.

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