 The coup was supported by former Algerian Governor General Jacques Soustelle and his activist allies.The coup had as its aim to oppose the formation of Pierre Pflimlin's new government and to impose a change of policies in favor of the right-wing partisans of French Algeria.Recurrent cabinet crises focused attention on the inherent instability of the Fourth Republic and increased the misgivings of the French Army and of the "Pieds-noirs" (European Algerians) that the security of French Algeria, an overseas department of France was being undermined by party politics.