Abdulah Arabi has been the Polisario Front representative in Spain since January 2020. He receives us at the headquarters of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Madrid, a somewhat ramshackle apartment, with old furniture, but with the identifying elements of a diplomatic headquarters: the flag and the photograph of the president, Brahim Gali. Arabi does not talk as an activist but as a politician, and it is from this perspective that he is perplexed and indignant in equal parts by the step taken by Spain in relation to Western Sahara.