French Senate Listens To Xavier Driencourt, Prevents The Publication Of The Session’s Content

The French Senate has blocked the content of the hearing of French Ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt, from the official website of the French Parliament Second Chamber, amid tight silence on the subject of the session and its content, but the timing and the circumstances of the session put it in the follow-up of the Algerian internal situation in light of the ongoing popular protests since February and the resignation of Bouteflika, and the impossibility of holding presidential elections.

The hearing took place on June,5 at the level of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Armed Forces, as checked out by Echorouk on the website of the Second Chamber of the French Parliament, as the official website of the French Senate did not mention the subject of the hearing to its ambassador to Algeria.

However, the official website of the French Senate mentioned in the hearing of Xavier Driencourt that its content would not be published later, noting that it could not be the subject of a report to be prepared.

On the other hand, the website added that the report on Colombia as an emerging country will be published later, adding that the two files appeared in the same page on the Senate website and on the same date of June,5.

According to the opinion of observers, the hearing of the Ambassador of Paris to Algeria by the Senate of his country has been linked to the political events in Algeria for months, in light of the continuing popular movement that toppled the former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ongoing trials of those involved in corruption cases during his rule.

The French senator listened to a delegation from the Algerian National Assembly on April 10, just one day after the inauguration of Ben Saleh as the interim president of the country, and the session discussed the internal political situation in the country and Ben Saleh’s mission, the presidency, and other related files.

The French Foreign Ministry, through its embassy in Algeria, recently denied what was stated in a telegram to the APS that Paris supports the presidential elections of July 4 in an atmosphere of calm and serenity, noting that the response of the Foreign Minister, Jean Yves Le Drian was during the month of March in response to a question to an MP In the National Assembly of Algerian origin on what is going on in Algeria and the faith of the elections of April 18 which were canceled.