Algeria… For These Reasons Paris Is Covertly Maneuvering!

It seems that the French authorities are unwilling to rationalize their “bitterness” regarding the former Prime Minister, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, winning the presidential elections 12/12, as evidenced by Emmanuel Macron’s agreement with his Foreign Minister, Jean Yves Le Drian, to repeat a phrase that is diplomatically utterly suspicious.

Le Drian used in his interview with the French international radio channel (France Inter) the phrase “I took note of the victory of Tebboune” in the presidential elections, the same phrase that Macron used in the press conference that he had made in the wake of the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, last Friday.

And because the phrase “Take note of the victory of Tebboune”, which implies a lot of ambiguity that hides a suspicious diplomatic position, Le Drian had to explain this and fell into the taboo, when he said that “it means that we have noticed that there is a path and he will be appointed as president … It is the axes of France”.

It is clear from Le Drian’s words that France does not view the new president of Algeria as an elected president, but rather a designated president (who will be appointed president), and this is the most dangerous thing that has been issued by French officials since the outbreak of the popular protest movement, because it is a tendency to deal with the new president as an order reality or rather as an actual president and not as an elected one.

Such a statement can only be issued by a senior official, who suffers from a “guardianship” complex, forgetting that the Algerian people have become an independent and sovereign state, and they have previously taught colonial France, a telling lesson in their lofty struggle for national liberation.

The head of the French diplomacy also said that “France hopes one thing, and this is not a diplomatic hope at all, that the democratic transition will continue within the respect of Algerian sovereignty” .
This statement is an extension of Paris’ failure to recognize the results of Algeria’s elections whose results and credibility weren’t contested, even by from who competed with the winning president in the December 12th presidential election race.

The French authorities showed naivety, but rather stupidity in dealing with the peoples who rose against the regimes that were loyal to the former colony. As happened during the revolution of Jasmine in Tunisia, while the Tunisian people were on the street against the late dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Michel Alliot-Marie, Minister of the Interior of Nicolas Sarkozy at the time, offered military equipment to help the Tunisian police crackdown the demonstrators, and it all ended up with the fall of autocratic president Ben Ali.

Many observers wonder about what would have been the position of Paris if the fifth term of the former president passed off successfully? The data that printed the scene before February 22 were all indicating the satisfaction of the Palace of the Elysée (Presidency) and with it the Quai D’Orsay (Foreign Ministry), as well as the Palace of Matignon (Prime Ministry), with a fifth term, because Bouteflika was their candidate as well, despite his absence from the scene for several years, and despite knowing that the presidential seal was in the hands of unconstitutional forces, it then wreaked havoc in politics, in economics, and spawned widespread corruption.

Paris bitterly realized that the new Algerian president didn’t make her day, but he is viewed as her enemy. Paris was not comfortable with him even when he was Prime minister, as her “lackeys” fought on her behalf until they ousted him from the premiership more than two years ago, so what about becoming the first decision-maker in the country? It is normal today for the French authorities to refuse to congratulate him, because he did not perform the rituals of loyalty to her.

It can be said that the Algerian-French relations after Macron’s and Le Drian’s adverse statements have now entered a new stage, which ought to be based on parity, after being previously predominantly subordinate, notably marked by the purchase of silence in public deals and concessions that amounted to the ceding of some nationalist values, such as the sale of sovereignty ie: (the crossing of French warplanes of Algerian airspace) sent to kill innocent people in Mali), due to myriad considerations of internal positioning.