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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. Twice Ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt recounts in “The Algerian Enigma” the impasse in which France finds itself.
By Benoit Delmas
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To barely the ink of the results dried that the President of the Algerian Republic invited Emmanuel Macron on an official visit. Abdelmadjid Tebboune can sigh: Marine Le Pen’s victory would not have been good news for a visa-hungry Algerian regime. The Le Pen family name would have slapped in the wind of the Aurès, reviving vile memories of “the nameless war”. President Tebboune is very much in court at the Élysée, in the entourage which feeds the subject Algeria. We do not know why so much this FLN apparatchik, repeatedly made minister by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has not changed relations between the two countries one iota. On the contrary. The next visit should not be a bis repetitae of that of December 2017. The young president then went to Algiers c…
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