Social networks reacted to an unusual response from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, asked by a local channel about a possible visit to France, where he declared: “I will not go to Canossa.”
The response implicitly excluded Tebboune from the visit to France, after the visit had been postponed several times since May 2023, and its last scheduled date was between late September and early October last year.
The phrase “going to Canossa” is used as a metaphor for refusing to submit and asking for forgiveness, and refers to the procedure that the German Emperor Henry IV was forced to undertake in the 11th century, when he went to the Italian town of Canossa. ask Pope Gregory VII to lift his excommunication.
The Shabakat program (07/10/2024) followed certain interactions of the platforms with the response of the Algerian president, in particular what Salah El-Din wrote: “If this is the case, he compared himself to Henry, this which puts him in a position of weakness, not strength.
Karim Karim wrote: “I think that the sentence that the Algerian president repeated during his meeting with the national press is a good sentence and is at the heart of the speech, and the subject concerns Algerian-French relations and what they are.”
As for Rahmani, he tweeted: “In other words, he means that he does not give in to external pressure and refuses to make concessions. There is nothing good behind the enemy of yesterday, present and future, and the one waiting for it is illusory. .”
Hamza Akashat declared: “The beautiful thing about Algeria is that it does not sell illusions and slander… Our position is clear, a policy of equals with equals. We neither fear nor kneel except before God.
But Youssef reacted differently to Tebboune’s response and wrote: “No one knew this before. From now on, the press, politicians and intellectuals will use it in their conversations, especially with their neighbors in the West and the East. »
Relations between Algeria and Paris cooled again after France announced its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan in Western Sahara at the end of last July.
Algeria quickly recalled its ambassador to Paris, reduced its diplomatic representation and retained a charge d’affaires.