Polisario AU Exit Process

The Constitutive Act of the African Union does not provide a general mechanism for terminating a member state’s membership, so the process would require an amendment to the Act. A member state would submit a proposal to the Chairperson of the Commission, who would notify the other members within 30 days; the Union Assembly would then consider it within a year. The amendment would be adopted by consensus or, if consensus could not be reached, by a two-thirds majority. It would also require ratification by two-thirds of the member states—that is, 37 of the 55—to enter into force 30 days after the instruments of ratification were deposited. The amendment should also specify how termination of membership would be applied and what majority would be required. By the time the article was published, there was no indication that Morocco had submitted a formal proposal, although the 2016 Kigali Memorandum, signed by 28 states, called for the suspension of the “Sahrawi Republic’s” participation.

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