In Spain, Vox remembers the 300 Spanish victims of Polisario terrorism

Spanish far-right party Vox has condemned an exhibition of photos celebrating Polisario fighters held at the Cantabrian parliament headquarters. Leticia Díaz, the party's spokesperson in the regional parliament, called it a «scandal» to display «images of terrorists who have targeted our compatriots», according to a Spanish media outlet.

Vox vehemently criticizes the Polisario. Díaz accused the exhibition of «whitewashing» the group's responsibility for «the murder of almost 300 Spaniards».

«We cannot be complicit in the Polisario Front's attacks through historical revisionism and denial of violence», she asserted. Díaz pointed to the «campaign of terror and attacks against Spain, particularly the Spanish fishing fleet», which led the Socialist government under Felipe Gonzalez to sever ties with the Polisario Front in 1986 and expel its leaders from Spain.

Vox's disapproval of the Polisario extends to its actions in regional parliaments. In October 2020, the party refused to support a motion in the Castilian-Leonese parliament urging the regional government to back the expansion of MINURSO's mandate to include human rights monitoring in the Sahara. Similarly, in May 2020, Vox withdrew from the «peace and freedom in Western Sahara group» in the Balearic Islands' regional parliament.

More recently, in March 2022, Vox's members in the Spanish parliament, along with the PSOE and the People’s Party, rejected a non-binding proposal urging the government to protect human rights in Western Sahara. Notably, Vox even abstained from supporting an article in the text that considered the Sahara a «territory of interest» for the Spanish cooperation agency.