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"Mr President, I would like to start by expressing my full solidarity and the solidarity of my group with the people of Algeria, which has once again been struck by a huge disaster. We who support the Algerian people, particularly in their fight for independence, are shocked by the tragic consequences of the floods in that country.
Material and, above all, human loss are jeopardising the country’s development and preserving its excessive structural and political shortcomings.
This disaster reveals once again the incompetence of the Algerian government: the way it builds houses and roads in flood plains and decides to block drains allegedly for safety reasons is proof of the utter irresponsibility of its leaders, and this is on top of the corruption and misuse of funds.
The government has failed in its primary mission of serving the general interests of the people. It has done nothing to meet the needs of the people or ensure their safety. Therefore, we must call upon the Algerian authorities to make good their past mistakes. This situation must on no account be allowed to occur again either in Algeria or elsewhere. We must no longer allow citizens’ lives to be endangered by irresponsible, self-interested or reprehensible behaviour."@en1
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