Macron’s Administration Steals The Results Of Royal’s Visit To Algeria!

Two ministers in the French government mobilized to respond to the outcomes of the visit by the president of the “France-Algeria Association”, Ms. Ségolène Royal, to Algeria, a development that indicates the state of resentment sweeping through the French authorities due to the exposure of the shortcomings of Paris’s policy in dealing with the unprecedented crisis that has plagued bilateral relations for nearly two years.

At the same time that the French television channel TF1 hosted Ségolène Royal, who criticized Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of Interior in Sébastien Lecornu’s government, for not fulfilling his promise to visit Algeria, Bruno Retailleau’s successor appeared as a guest on the same channel on the morning of Tuesday, February 3, 2026, to respond to Ségolène Royal’s embarrassing statements.

Laurent Nuñez was asked by a TF1 journalist if he would abandon the conditions he had previously set for visiting Algeria, to which he replied, “No, I will not abandon my conditions,” which he considered “minimum level” conditions, referring here to the issue of Algerian nationals whom Paris wants to deport, as well as the case of Christophe Gleizes, which he said “concerns us greatly.”

The former candidate for the 2007 French presidential elections had attacked her country’s interior minister, saying, “When you set preconditions, you don’t want to go (to Algeria),” and stressed that “he is expected in Algeria, and he must go there,” a conclusion she reached after meeting President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as she stated.

Laurent Nuñez said that he is awaiting progress on the issue of Algerian nationals whom Paris wants to deport, and explained that his services have not obtained consular permits as hoped, as well as the imprisonment of the national Christophe Gleyzes, who is serving a seven-year sentence for his involvement in supporting and praising terrorism.

These are issues that are not open for discussion by the Algerian side, which had responded to the French side and demanded that it respect the consular agreements concluded between the two countries on the issue of deportation. As for the case of Christophe Gleizes, the decision rests solely with the judiciary and has been settled, pending the results of the appeal at the Supreme Court.

The French Minister of Interior also responded to Ségolène Royal, who hinted that Nuñez might have been influenced by the former Minister of Interior, Bruno Retailleau, by placing obstacles (preconditions) in the way of his visit to Algeria, denying this and at the same time affirming that he holds him in high regard.

In a stance indicating that Ségolène Royal’s visit to Algeria and its repercussions caused great embarrassment to Emmanuel Macron’s administration, Bruno Retailleau’s successor at the “Beauvau” palace was keen to emphasize that the visit was a personal initiative and was not commissioned by the French authorities. This same stance was confirmed by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, for the second time in less than a week.

The top official at the Quai d’Orsay said that Ségolène Royal visited Algeria in her capacity as president of the France-Algeria Association, and was not on an official mission for French President Emmanuel Macron, as he put it, a stance that raises more than one question about the insistence on this affirmation, which intersects with the Minister of Interior setting preconditions for the visit, leading to the belief that there is a feeling of humiliation, which the former Minister of Interior, Bruno Retailleau, was the first to express.

What is striking is that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who shared with the Minister of Interior the disavowal of Ms. Ségolène Royal’s visit, marketed some of the achievements made thanks to this visit as achievements for official France, such as the praise, where Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Monday that Christophe Gleizes’ family was able to visit him in his new prison in Koléa, west of the Algerian capital.

The visit of the prisoner’s family was not achieved through the efforts of Emmanuel Macron’s administration and government, but rather thanks to the former minister (Royal), who had previously confirmed that her intervention succeeded in transferring the convicted French national from Tizi Ouzou prison to a prison near the capital. She is also credited with the visit of the prisoner’s family, because the Algerian authorities had decided to prohibit his visits in response to the French authorities’ decision to prohibit visits to the Algerian consular official in France, as Algeria International TV reported from its sources earlier.

Despite the outcomes of Ms. Ségolène Royal’s visit, which achieved what the official French authorities failed to do, neither of the two ministers dared to thank the person responsible for the achievement, in a display of ingratitude that is disgusting and can only come from a minister incapable of achieving what is expected of him, and who tries to steal the achievements of others.