TRIBUNE – In Algiers, where the legislative elections are being closely scrutinized, there is concern about the possibility of a new government that could reshuffle the cards in the Maghreb, explains Xavier Driencourt., former French ambassador to Algeria.
Xavier Driencourt is a diplomat and former French ambassador to Algeria. He published The Algerian Enigma. Chronicles of an Embassy in Algiers (Editions de l’Observatoire, March 2022).
Thus, through the political game on both sides of the Mediterranean, France and Algeria are each in an election period, France because of the dissolution of the National Assembly, Algeria because of the date of the presidential election brought forward by President Tebboune to September 7. The images of the G7 in Bari showed two men who, perhaps in a few months, will represent two countries once again in crisis.
Everything was going well until recently: just a few days ago, there was talk of warming between Paris and Rabat after several years of political estrangement and, on the Algerian side, we were preparing a possible state visit by President Tebboune to Paris For ” September or October “. Both foreign ministries and embassies are active there.
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