In Algeria, Macron has a goal for his last year in office: Reconciliation

Emmanuel Macron was flying again to Paris after a two-day go to to South Korea. The French president was reviewing his journey to Seoul with his diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne and members of his delegation. When he noticed Sabrina Sebaihi, president of the France-South Korea friendship group on the Assemblée Nationale (the Green MP has a long-standing ardour for Korea and speaks the language), he modified subjects and international locations, asking her: “So, what do we do about Algeria?” The French-Algerian lawmaker is well-versed in debates over the strained relationship between Paris and Algiers, and Macron sought her view that day on learn how to revive the stalled relationship.

“The president wants to reconcile with Algeria before the end of his term,” Sebaihi stated in a later interview. She just isn’t the one one to have this impression amongst those that focus on the Algeria concern with the president. Clearly, Macron doesn’t wish to depart the Elysée with a failure in Algiers. Such a disappointment can be all of the extra bitter, given the symbolic funding he put in throughout his first time period.

It is value recalling that in 2020, he gave the difficulty of reminiscence relating to Algeria “almost the same status as the Holocaust for [President Jacques] Chirac in 1995.” The report he commissioned from historian Benjamin Stora, submitted in January 2021, was meant to offer him with a methodology to attain the reconciliation he sought.

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