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Louisa… First Female Candidate For Algeria’s Presidency
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| Last Edited | User 13 Mar 20, 2004 12:41pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, February 26, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Campaigning on a platform of political and economic reforms in Algeria, Louisa Hanoun made herself the first woman to run for presidency in the history of the country.
The leader of the country’s Workers Party, Hanoun is widely respected across the country for advocating civil rights and seeking to keep the country’s territorial integrity.
“Now that peace is back I have decided to run for the presidency,” Hanoun told supporters on Friday, February20 .
With a slogan of “The Algerian people must live”, the popular activist have to collect at least75 , 000signatures of voters in at least25 out of 48 of Algeria's provinces for being a candidate.
Hanoun said she had collected100 ,000, sufficient for her to obtain permission to run. She failed in her 1999 bid.
The presidential hopeful said the next polls are to be “detrimental to the life of Algerians”.
About a dozen candidates are expected to survive the selection process, several have announced their candidacy, including President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Bouteflika, announcing his bid for a second five-year term, is expected to win the April 6 elections, as Algerian opposition are up to arms with electoral fraud accusations.
Several other candidates have announced plans to run, including former prime minister Ali Bin Flis and Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi, who has wide support among Islamic voters in Algeria.
All six of Bouteflika’s opponents quit the election race the day before the vote in1999 .
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