The Ministry of Culture and Arts has issued a directive to all officials in the sector to inform them that "all programming and broadcasting of vulgar songs is henceforth prohibited during official cultural events" in Algeria. The directive urges all those in charge of the culture sector to prohibit any programming and broadcasting of songs whose lyrics are contrary to "good morals" and which constitute a "public outrage to modesty". The Ministry of Culture and the Arts explains that the aim of this ban is to "block drifts that undermine the principles and values of society", and refers "to the fourth commitment of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who insisted on the need for moralization of political and public life and the latest orientation relating to the law on the prevention of drugs and narcotics and the repression of drug trafficking".