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On Mar 23, 2025

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Lhe Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune retains confidence in Emmanuel Macron. In an interview broadcast on Algerian tv, he stated that Emmanuel Macron stays his “only benchmark” within the present disaster between Algiers and Paris, as reported Le Figaro. “In order not to fall into the hubbub or the political shackles there [en France]I would only say three words: we keep as a benchmark and only point of reference Macron, “he stated.

The chief set the remark of “two independent states” with “two presidents who work together”. “Everything else does not concern us,” he insisted. According to him, the tensions between his nation and France are “a moment of misunderstanding”, displaying his want to “solve all the problems” solely with the French president or “with the person he delegates, namely the foreign ministers between them”.

Also reiterating his confidence in Ahmed Attaf, his Minister of Foreign Affairs, he judged that the disaster was “in good hands” however regretted that it was “created from scratch”, with out specifying the officers. Press releases from his Ministry of Foreign Affairs had notably denounced maneuvers of “the revancing and hateful French right”.

Macron calls to launch Boualem Sansal

The political disaster between the 2 nations dates again to the summer time of 2024 when Emmanuel Macron stated he supported a plan of autonomy below Moroccan sovereignty for Western Sahara. Algiers then withdrew his ambassador to Paris. On Saturday, President Tebboune nonetheless assured that the friendship between Paris and Rabat “does not bother us at all, contrary to what we say”, whereas condemning the current visits of Rachida Dati and Gérard Larcher on this territory.

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The tensions have worsened with the arrest of the Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal for remarks thought of to be concerned within the integrity of the Algerian territory. On Thursday, Emmanuel Macron repeated his name for “a quick outcome” in order that the creator imprisoned and affected by most cancers “finds freedom”, calling for the “clairvoyance” of his Algerian counterpart. The Algerian prosecution requested ten years in jail in opposition to the creator.

Finally, Algeria’s refusal to welcome a number of Algerian nationals below OQTF expelled by France has completed focusing on the bilateral relationship. The French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, threatened with a “graduated response”. On Saturday, the Algerian chief stated that among the many dozens of circumstances refused by day, some are of “freedom of expression”, highlighting the state of affairs of an Algerian positioned below OQTF for having “denounced the genocide in Gaza”.

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