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While diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria are experiencing a new escalation, critical voices are increasingly rising within the French political class. After Ségolène Royal, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France, who firmly takes a position against the policy of Emmanuel Macron with regard to Algeria, whom he considers provocative and dangerously retrograde.
In a long post published on August 9 on his official blog, Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not hesitate to accuse Emmanuel Macron of calling into question the efforts of Franco-Algerian reconciliation and cooperation, for the benefit of a strategy based on the provocation and instrumentalization of colonial memory. “After having made France expel from almost all of Africa, Macron now chooses to humiliate Algeria,” he protests.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemns the positions of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, whom he accuses of giving in to the pressures of nostalgic colonization and Arabophobic currents. For him, these repeated attacks against Algeria are part of a dangerous and contemptuous logic which “afflict, worried and despair” not only the Algerians, but also many French people attached to a peaceful relationship between the two countries.
He describes the recent decisions of the French government “path of absurdities”, with dramatic consequences for bilateral relations. He alerts an increasingly deep fracture between France and the Maghreb, according to him, a policy guided by historical ignorance and electoral calculations.
Far from any conflicting logic, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recalls that Algeria cannot be treated as a simple object of political discord. He insists on the central role of Algeria in the Mediterranean, on its strategic, cultural and human importance in the construction of a future shared between the two banks.
“Algeria is the mortal mirage of dreams of power of French political helplessness since 1830”, he denounces, pointing the responsibility of supporters of French Algeria in maintaining a climate of permanent tension.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Algeria deserves much better than current provocations. He calls for a redesign of Franco-Algerian relations on solid, respectful and turned bases. He warns: “There is no lasting future for France without or against the Maghreb and its peoples. »»
The leader of rebellious France finally denounces “the shock strategy” adopted by Emmanuel Macron, which he deems not only ineffective but also deeply dangerous for the two peoples. He pleads for a break with the colonial past and a sincere recognition of the wounds of history.
Faced with a young, dynamic Algeria, open to international cooperation and aware of its regional role, Jean-Luc Mélenchon offers another path: that of a fair and respectful partnership, based on confidence, peaceful memory and dialogue.