Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 13, 2011 (SPS) - The National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has decided that the thirteenth Congress will be held in the liberated town of Tifariti in the period from December 15 to 19, 2011 under the motto: “the independent Saharawi state, is the solution” bearing the name of the Martyr and deceased leader, Mahfoud Ali Beiba, a source of the Preparatory Committee told Sunday SPS.
The Congress is the supreme body of the people. It decides on the major tasks of the political, organizational, military, social, economic, diplomatic, media, cultural and other areas of the national struggle.
The Congress is held every three years in a regular session be postponed once for 1 years as a maximum. The participants in the Congress are: activists elected from both sexes, members of the National Secretariat and government, ambassadors, local political officials, members of the General Staff of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army, delegates elected from every military region, representatives of mass and student organizations, heads of the municipalities, delegates representing the Saharawi community abroad.
It evaluates the phase between two congresses, decides a program of national action, review the provisions of the Polisario Front’s basic law and constitution of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, elect secretary general for the Polisario Front and members of its National Secretariat, which is the leadership body responsible for the struggle of the Saharawi people between tow congresses.
Since its establishment on 10 May 1973, the Polisario Front has hold 12 congresses. Each one was a new turning point in the path to acquaintance with requirements of the time of its holding, in a way that maintain the continuity of the liberation struggle and efforts for the national construction. (SPS)
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