Le Monde: The death of Qaid Saleh reshuffles cards in Algeria

Regardless of the opinion of the Algerians on the late Chief of Staff Ahmed Qaid Saleh, between what he commended and criticized, they are particularly unanimous in asking about the consequences of this sudden death of the strongman of the country and this "painful and tragic ordeal for Algeria", as described by the Ministry of Defense.

This is what the French newspaper Le Monde said while commenting on this absence, which it said raises the following two questions: Can this event change the rules of the game in Algeria? Will the Algerian army continue to follow the hard line that Saleh put in the face of the movement, or will he choose to go the path of openness?

Without going into the newspaper trying to answer the two questions, she said that the new president, Abdul Majeed Tabun, who has become the "actual voice of the regime," has yet to send clear signals about his policy to follow in the coming weeks, and his call for dialogue remains vague.

As for political opponents and activists of the movement, they make the release of prisoners of conscience and the end of control over the audio-visual media a prerequisite for any possible breakthrough, so that calls for peaceful protests remain strong on social media, but the end of the "institutional void" does not end the political crisis, according to Le Monde.