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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity party (PAM)’s «alliance» with a political party in Algeria has been crashed. Algeria’s Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), which promotes secularism and has its principal power base in Kabylie, is being on a friendly footing with the Polisario.
RCD’s secretary general Mohcine Belabbas visited the headquarters of the «Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic embassy» in Algeries Monday, October the 22nd, to meet the Polisario’s «ambassador» to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Oumar. During their meeting, the Algerian politician reiterated his «unconditional support for the Sahrawi people and their just cause, according to the principles and positions of the Algerian state», reported several pro-Polisario newspapers.
Belabbas and his PAM’s alliance
In March 2018, Mohcine Belabbad (RCD), Ilyas El Omari, who headed at the time the Authenticity and Modernity Party, and representatives from Libya’s National Front Party (PNL) and Tunisia’s Republican Part, signed a declaration calling for the rebuilding of the Great Maghreb.
The document invited politicians from the five neighboring countries to «overcome their political and economic differences that hinder the North African region's mobility and encourage threats related to destabilization».
In an interview with Algerian newspaper TSA, Belabbas declared that «for several years, bilateral and multilateral relations between the countries in the region have been negatively affected by their conflicts». When speaking, he made sure not to refer to the Polisario Front.
However, Belabbas’ new plans contradict the former position of the Algerian party. The latter has called for several years for the reopening of borders separating Morocco and Algeria and which were closed in August 1994. «The reopening of the Algerian-Moroccan borders depends largely on the will of the Algerian government», he told the same source.
In February 2016, Mohcine Belabbas enjoyed a warm welcome in Morocco. He was received by Ilyas El Omari and had the chance to deliver a speech at the PAM’s Congress.
