Ironically again, François Soudan notes that Abdelaziz was the only candidate to succeed himself, he who runs the phoney entity since 1976.

Neither defections nor uprisings –quickly repressed- that regularly sweep the tents of Tindouf seem to have affected this outgrowth of the cold war between Algeria and Morocco, the weekly said.

In 2011, the downfall of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the kidnapping of three European humanitarian aid workers from Rabouni, the stronghold of polisario in Tindouf, have somewhat weakened the leadership of Mohamed Abdelaziz, but not so much as to dissipate the microclimate which prevents the spring from blowing on this strange entity, the magazine said.

News and events on Western Sahara issue/ Corcas