Re-elected for a second term, outgoing President Abdelmadjid Tebboune takes the oath of office this Tuesday, September 17, Zebdi denounces a “plot” against El Mordjene in France, Bennacer absent for four months, Morocco discovers its social reality… The 5 news items to remember this Tuesday, September 17.
Algerian Presidential Elections: Tebboune Takes Oath
Re-elected for a second term as head of Algeria during the presidential September 7, Abdelmadjid Tebboune will take the oath this Tuesday, September 17.
The inauguration ceremony, which took place at the Palais des Nations in Club des Pins, on the west coast of Algiers, comes three days after the announcement of the final results of the early presidential election by the Constitutional Court.
The highest judicial authority proclaimed on Saturday, September 14, the victory of outgoing President Abdelmadjid Tebboune for a second presidential term with 84.3% of the votes cast.
Presidential elections in Algeria: the PT
The Workers’ Party reacted on Monday to the results of the September 7 presidential election which confirmed the victory with an overwhelming majority to the outgoing president Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
“This election and its developments, namely the preliminary results and the final results, reflect the acceleration of a deep crisis of the regime that impacts the national state,” wrote Louisa Hanoune’s party in a press release that followed the meeting of its national council held on Saturday, September 14, the day the final results of the presidential elections were announced by the Constitutional Court.
In its press release, where the word anger was repeated several times, the PT noted the difference between the figures of the Anie and those of the Constitutional Court. The party of Louisa Hanoune, who withdrew from the presidential race, called for “emergency measures commensurate with the seriousness of the situation, to respond positively to the political and social expectations of the overwhelming majority of the people”, in order to “safeguard the nation, its sovereignty and its integrity”.
Algeria team: Ismaël Bennacer out for four months
Successfully operated on his calf on Monday in Finland, Ismael Bennacer will not return before 2025. The Algerian international from AC Milan will be without the field for four months, his club has indicated.
The defensive midfielder was injured during a training session on Sunday, September 8, ahead of the Algerian team’s trip to Monrovia to face Liberia on Tuesday, September 10.
Ismaël Bennacer published on X a photo of himself lying on a hospital bed with one leg in a cast.
Morocco: Who are the migrants trying to storm Ceuta?
In Morocco, it is a shock. The attempt of the great escape The migration of hundreds, if not thousands, of young Moroccans to Ceuta has reminded the kingdom of the harsh social reality of what is known as Neet (without employment, training or education).
After having tried to accuse the Algerian services of being at the origin of this new attempt by young Moroccans to flee the difficult living conditions in their country, the press close to the Royal Palace ended up recognizing the reality of the facts.
The site 360.mapointed out in an article, the immobility of the government of Aziz Akhanouche and especially its insolence. “(…) the Head of government, supposed to face a real national shame, unemployment or even the total lack of prospects, prefers not to see these armies of desperate young people”, writes the 360.ma while the situation in Fnediq, the town near Ceuta from where migrants want to storm the Spanish enclave, remains very tense.
However, alarm bells have not been missing since Morocco dropped its migration bomb on Spain in May 2021 to force it to change its position on Western Sahara.
Several attempts to cross the Spanish border have failed. In Morocco, NEETs number 4.3 million people, including 1.5 million in the 15-24 age group alone, according to figures published last July by the Economic and Social Council (CNES), or 12% of the Moroccan population.
The El Mordjene Paste Saga Continues: Zebdi Denounces a Plot
Despite its ban in France, the El Mordjene saga continues. On social networks and in the French media, people continue to talk about the Algerian spread that has shaken the queen of the European market, the Italian Nutella. In France, consumers rushed to buy the last pots of El Mordjene still available and a wave of solidarity has formed on social networks to support the Algerian spread.
In Algeria, the Cebon company, which manufactures El Mordjene, responded indirectly to the controversy raised by its ban in France, by stating that its product meets the required quality standards.
For his part, the president of the Consumer Protection Association (Apoce) Mustapha Zebdi reiterated his statements on a plot fomented by a lobby against Algerian products in France.
“There are three reasons that lead us to believe in the existence of this plot against the Algerian product,” he wrote on Facebook.
“The product had been on the market for years and did not provoke any reaction from the French authorities, the list of regulations invoked mentions milk and its derivatives, but the spread is not a derivative of milk, the milk which was used as a pretext to ban the product is of European origin!, which means that their products have been returned to them,” he listed.
