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Rabat – Tunisian president’s reception of the leader of the separatist Polisario militia leader is “political stupidity,” Mohamed Lassaad Abid Secretary-General of the Tunisian Labor Organization, said in a Facebook post today.
Apologizing to Moroccans, Lassaad Abid said in the post that the Tunisian President, Kais Saied, made an “incomprehensible” move when he decided to receive Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario militia.
Libya’s “Gaddafi and former presidents of Algeria did not do it publicly,” he said of the Tunisian president’s hosting of Ghali, adding that the move is “an official reception for a group that only a few recognize and in dark corners.”
Noting the historically good Morocco-Tunisian ties, Lassaad Abid said that Morocco was “among the first to stand with us in the plight of Covid 19 and in the tourism crisis.”
On the Sahara dispute, the unionist said: “Western Sahara is a Moroccan issue and we have no right to interfere in the internal affairs of any country.”
Addressing the Tunisian President in his post, the unionist further denounced his decision to invite and host the Polisario leader. “Who commissioned you to recognize a splinter group against the Moroccan state,” he asked rhetorically. “With such a foolish decision,” he added, Saied has created a “diplomatic wedge between two sister countries a long time ago.”
After apologizing to Moroccans for his country’s hosting of the separatist Polisario chief, Obeid ended his post by recalling Morocco’s historical role in promoting solidarity and shared prosperity in the Maghreb region.
“I offer a thousand apologies as Tunisia is much obliged to the Moroccan people,” he said.
“I am a labor unionist, son of a unionist. I cannot forget the Moroccan people’s participation in the largest demonstration in the history of the Great Arab Maghreb to denounce the assassination of the great union fighter Farhat Hached in 1952.”
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