MADRID Dec. 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Algeria, Abdelmayid Tebune, has once again attacked the autonomy plan proposed in 2007 by the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, for Western Sahara, a project in which he sees the hand of France and which implies that the Sahrawis are ultimately forced to decide “between the bad and the worst.”
This was stated by Tebune in a speech given before the two chambers of Parliament and in which he appealed to issues of all kinds, from economic to historical, among other things to remember the “desolation” that, in his opinion, colonization caused. French in the case of Algeria.
In the midst of cooling relations with France, the Algerian president has once again criticized the ties between Paris and Rabat, with the future of Western Sahara as a backdrop. The autonomy plan is, according to Tebune, “a French idea and not a Moroccan one,” reports the official APS news agency. “And we have known this for decades,” he added.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, managed to repair damaged relations with Morocco precisely this year by recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in July, in a milestone that Algeria publicly repudiated.
Tebune, re-elected to the position this year, believes that the initiatives put on the table imply choosing “between the bad and the worst”, when what lies behind the conflict is “a question of decolonization and self-determination.”
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