Following the 1969 coup d'etat in Libya and the ascension of Muammar Gaddafi to power, a pragmatic Spain had no problem to continue with the ongoing relations, in the overarching frame of Spanish neutrality towards the struggle between Conservative Arab monarchies and Pan-Arabist rulers taking place within the Arab League, although it did not take long for disagreements to emerge between the two countries over the timetable for the Spanish decolonisation of Western Sahara, and Libya eventually came to provide financial funding to the Polisario Front after 1973.