Belkhadem: I will spend the rest of my life in Saudi Arabia
الشروق أونلاين
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Abdelaziz Belkhadem realized with difficulty his resignation from Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) and burst into tears once he reached his car on the voting day.
The 67-year-old man is waiting for a “presidential present” as rumors say he may be appointed as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, according to close sources.
The FLN’s former leader who had friends in the Arab Gulf and Iran told a friend of him that he was thinking of going to Saudi Arabia. He wants to take a break with his family and visit all the places where he had grown up.
It is said that Belkhadem speaks French, English and Spanish along with Arabic. He plans to continue learning Italian and he may start writing his memories.
In 1998, Belkhadem also cried as Bouaalam Ben Hamouda opposed his election as the FLN’s Secretary General. Yet, it is harder this time because he knows that he would ever come back to the political scene.
Now, he stays at his house in El Mouradia in Algiers where there was written on a marbled picture “This by the grace of God.” He gathered all his four daughters and three sons: Amine, Abderrahmane and Zakaria and told them: “it’s time to care for my health.”
