The statute, however, still retained the inequitable double college principle, whereby, in effect, the European minority were balanced against the entire Muslim population. It met neither the demands of the Muslim parliamentary group for sovereignty to be granted to the Algerian Assembly, with the exception of reserve rights of defence and foreign affairs; nor for the according of dual citizenship rights.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 206