Diplomats surmise about less worse vying US presidential candidates for Algeria

The big weight of the United States and its worldwide influence as a so-called “policeman of the world”, constitutes an excuse to ask a lot of questions about who will be the successor to outgoing US President, Barack Obama, as this has a bearing on Washington’s relationship with Algeria under any newcomer to the White House.

As it’s well known, the presidential race in America, pits the candidate of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and wife of former President Bill Clinton, against the candidate of the Republican Party, the wealthy Donald Trump, one of the most controversial  candidates in the history of the United States, due to his declared positions hostile to the Arabs and Muslims in general and to the third world in particular.

It looks that the two US candidates’ positions on manifold Arab, Islamic and regional issues, vary and even show some contradictions, except for one point of convergence represented by the Palestinian issue, which is a principled cause for Algeria’s foreign policy, in addition to the issue of occupied Western Sahara which is expected to go nowhere with Hillary Clinton, as the latter announced on more than one occasion her glaring bias in favour of Morocco over this burning issue.

On this very point, Algerian diplomat and former Minister of Information, Mohamed Said, believes that the position of the US Democrat Party’s representative, namely Hillary Clinton has always favoured the Moroccan regime’s stance on the issue, adding that “what Algeria expects from the next American President is to be more rational and to act in line with United Nations’ relevant decisions.”

As for the Republican candidate, represented by Donald Trump, he is “a new figure in the world of American politics who hails from the business world, and this makes him similar to his predecessor, former President Ronald Reagan, who came to the politics from the movie world, which means that he must wait some time until being trained to this high job”, he underscored.

The diplomat further said “I think that the United States’ stand on the issue of the Western Sahara will not witness a lot of change, with the coming into office of a new President and the departure of another, pointing out that to all intents and purposes this long-running issue won’t be a priority in US foreign policy”.