Xavier Driencourt is a diplomat. Former director general of the administration of the Quai d'Orsay, head of the General Inspectorate of Foreign Affairs, he was French ambassador to Algiers twice, between 2008 and 2012, then between 2017 and 2020. He published a book retracing his experience:
The Algerian Enigma.
Chronicles of an embassy in Algiers
(Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2022).
It has now been three years since Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected President of the Republic in Algeria.
Three years and, in Algiers, the question of a second term is being asked.
What is the assessment of this presidency, what lessons can be drawn from it for France?
My friendship for Algeria, like my respect for the Algerian people, obliges me to recall certain facts about political reality, French illusions and their consequences.
If I had to briefly and brutally sum up the situation, I would say that the "new Algeria", according to the formula in vogue in Algiers, is in the process of collapsing before our eyes and that it...
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