In the National Assembly, the left divided over the vote on a resolution calling for the release of Boualem Sansal

A formality? The National Assembly was scheduled to begin examining a European resolution proposal this Monday evening, May 5 , "calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Boualem Sansal," the Franco-Algerian writer imprisoned in Algeria since November 16 for "attacking the integrity of the national territory." The issue of releasing an author detained by an authoritarian regime may seem consensual. But with the right and the far right planning to make the continuation of Franco-Algerian exchanges conditional on this release, the left may not approve the resolution.

The case had already occurred in March . While the text was being examined by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, the socialists, ecologists and rebels had