On the 1968 agreement between France and Algeria, Macron corrects Bayrou – Liberation

Dissonance at the head of the state. Asked Friday, February 28, on tensions between France and Algeria, Emmanuel Macron did not say the same thing as his Prime Minister two days earlier about the 1968 agreement signed by the two countries six years after the independence of the second. « We are not going to denounce them unilaterally, it makes no sense », He told the press from Portugal where he completed a state visit. In the morning, François Bayrou made the front page of Figaro And repeated in a river interview what he had announced two days earlier At the end of an interdepartmental immigration control committee : THE « Algerian leaders » have « Four to six weeks » For « Fulfill the obligations to which they are initiated » In migration matters and in particular the return of their nationals struck in France of an obligation to leave the territory. « If the agreement is not respected, the agreement will be denounced », repeated the Prime Minister in the conservative daily.

In this same interview, the head of government swears that « On such serious subjects, (he) does not make a decision without exchange with the President of the Republic ». « These are government orientations my