Elections in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic information
Political elections for public offices in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
"Elections in Western Sahara" redirects here. For elections in the Moroccan-administered part of Western Sahara, see Elections in Morocco.
Politics of the SADR
Constitution
Nationality law
Executive
President
Brahim Gali
Prime Minister
Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Legislature
Sahrawi National Council
President: Hamma Salama
Judiciary
Constitutional Council
Supreme Court
Court of Appeal
Judicial system
Politics
Parties:
Polisario Front
Administrative divisions
Free Zones
Municipalities
Sahrawi refugee camps
Elections
Recent elections
Presidential: 2016
2019
2023
Legislative: 2016
2020
2023
Foreign relations
International recognition
Political status of Western Sahara
Western Sahara conflict
ICJ Advisory Opinion
Diplomatic missions of / to the SADR
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
Other countries
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Elections in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic are regularly held by the government-in-exile at a national, regional and local level. Elections are considered to be held under a non-partisan participatory democratic regime, as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and the Polisario Front (the sole legally recognised political movement in the SADR, which leads to a de-facto one-party state) structures are parallel.
The SADR claims the Western Sahara, a territory largely administered by Morocco since Spain abandoned it in 1975. The sovereignty over Western Sahara is unresolved: the territory is contested by Morocco and the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Río de Oro), a national liberation movement which formally proclaimed a government-in-exile in 27 February 1976. The United Nations, which considers Western Sahara to be a non-self-governing territory, has attempted to hold a referendum on the issue through the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which administered a ceasefire in place between September 1991 and November 2020.
The Constitution of the SADR, proclaimed in 1976 and amemded several times, stipulates that the current political system is an emergency mechanism, with the intention to establish a multi-party system as soon as the SADR manages to establish its authority in all of Western Sahara. The Polisario would then either be dissolved or transformed into an ordinary political party based on an extraordinary Congress.
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