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After failing to secure a seat on the African Union’s Peace and Security Council, Algeria returned to its old tactics of buying votes in hotels, which clearly shows the erosion of diplomatic thought at the El Mouradia Palace.
Algeria faced a devastating blow on Wednesday when African nations ignored its attempts to regain the seat on the Peace and Security Council.
Morocco has earned broad trust from African nations for its positive intentions to serve the interests of the African people, free from narrow political calculations and destructive separatist agendas.
It became clear that Algeria, with no relevant diplomatic or economic ideas to match the modern African agenda in a turbulent international environment, resorted to vote-buying and the political bag strategy after its failure.
According to sources at the Addis Ababa meetings, since Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s arrival last Thursday, bags started moving through the halls of the hotels in the Ethiopian capital to manipulate an election that was originally meant to be a routine diplomatic event.
The same sources reported, “after failing to secure a seat on the Peace and Security Council, Algeria, fearing another disappointment, sent a team of mediators with one job, which is to convince others using attractive arguments.”
Algeria failed to secure the required number of votes last Wednesday, as some countries abstained from supporting its candidacy, mainly due to ongoing disputes with several African nations. The vote was held secretly, making it difficult to know which countries did not back Algeria.
New elections will be held soon, “mainly because no one in Africa trusts this military regime anymore.”
These elections are part of the 38th regular summit of the African Union, set for February 15-16 in Addis Ababa. They are preceded by the 46th regular session of the Executive Council (foreign ministers), where the new leadership of the African Union Commission will be elected, through the election of 5 members of the Peace and Security Council.
This is not the first time Algeria has used intermediaries to push its agenda. According to observers, “this behavior is causing the decline of an organization that Algeria has used for years to serve its own hegemonic goals.”
Since Morocco returned to its place in the African Union in 2016, the African continent has looked to Morocco for ideas on how to bring about structural changes in the African Union’s institutions, aligning them with global shifts and the increasing international conflicts that have long affected Africa.
Since then, Morocco has led several African organizations, including the African Peace and Security Council, ending Algeria’s long-standing dominance, which had steered the organization away from its intended goals of serving continental security and instead aligned it with agendas supporting separatist movements in the Moroccan Sahara.
During Morocco’s time leading the council, the roadmap improved, while Algeria tried to reclaim lost ground, forgetting about the change in African thinking.
With its return to vote-buying and bribery, Hespress AR sources confirmed that “this behavior undermines the legitimacy of elections intended to reform the African Union’s structure.”
Instead of focusing on African cooperation and partnerships that benefit all, Algeria continues to rely on blackmail and vote-buying.
These changes come amid Algeria’s increasing diplomatic isolation, tensions with neighboring countries in the Sahel region, diminishing influence over the Libyan situation, ongoing crises with Spain and France, and the opening of a new dispute with Syria.
Source: hespress
