Backed by Ben Bella, the General Staff lobby also challenged the agreement whereby the Europeans would be entitled to representation in the future Algerian Assembly. Krim is said to have riposted acidly to Boumedienne: “And you who are at the head of the army, explain to us how you will expel the French? By arms?” … But, with the bulk of the military engaged in countering the O.A.S. and making dispositions for the future inside Algeria, Krim and the “politicians” had a majority in excess of the two-thirds required by the G.P.R.A. for ratifying a peace treaty.

DEFINE: Clarifies the G.P.R.A.'s supermajority requirement and that Krim's political faction met it.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1586