A date for the referendum has still not been scheduled. The sticking point seems to be who will be allowed to vote in the referendum: Only residents or their dissidents living in the Western Sahara territory at the time of the Spanish survey in 1935 or Moroccan nationals with ethnic origins in the Western Sahara. While the dispute is ongoing. refugees from the Western Sahara remain in camps in southern Algeria. In the case of Algeria. while they have been hospitable to Western Saharan refugees. they have denied their own people an opportunity to elect their parliament in democratic elections. On December 24. 1991. Algeria successfully completed the first round of democratically held national elections.
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