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ALGERIALouisa Hanoune presidential candidateThe spokeswoman for the Workers Party in Algeria, Louisa Hanoune has announced her candidacy for the April 8 presidential election. The Workers Party has collected over 100,000 signatures to support this candidacy. We publish some extracts from the Algerian press on Louisa Hanoune’s candidacy. Le Matin (February 21): "It is three days from the deadline, February 23, to file papers for the presidential election on April 8 at the level of constitutional Council, which Louisa Hanoune, henceforth the general secretary of the Workers Party after the last congress of the party, yesterday announced her participation in the race to the highest office. Hanoune said over 92,300 signatures were collected in 48 wilayas, and after a speech at the central committee and national council of her party regarding this issue, she expects this figure to reach 108,000 signatures. This is the result of a campaign qualified as a "victory for the party." Hanoune then spoke at length on the reasons, which motivated the Workers Party to have her participate in the election, although they had indicated, "the collection of signatures has been an activity totally independent of the party." She added, "We are not part of those who buy the consciences of others, and the citizens have conferred their signatures with complete democracy." Liberté (February 21): The headline reads, "First Woman Candidate." "Inspired by the speeches and traditional positions of her party, the presidential candidate proclaimed that "the country is in turmoil and one step before the precipice," in the months preceding the April election, which will take place in "extraordinary conditions under which political and security conditions for an election have not always been met." Algeria is threatened and in danger. The next election will not fix the country’s profound problems." Her participation in the popular consultation in April is being undertaken in an attempt to stop the chaos, which has already begun and risks carrying off Algeria. In reference to her campaign slogan—"Algeria must survive"—she explained that her entry into the electoral race comes from and is inscribed directly in the course of her fight for the survival of her country—and that she will fight relentlessly in the direction of parties and institutions so that Algeria does not sink into chaos." Quotidien d’Oran of the same date explains: "According to her, the question surpasses the elections for there are "those who propose a Georgian solution," but also those who would "take Algeria towards an Iraqi or Ivoirian scenario." With her followers, she wants to be "the grain of sand that will stop this chaos." Combating the present breaking up of the Algerian nation is one of the objectives of the Workers Party through its participation in this presidential election on April 8. This participation in the presidential race will permit the reinforcement and consolidation of the militant bases, said Louisa Hanoune, who wants more than ever to increase the social base of her party. At the same time she does not hide the fact that the political situation is "grave, dangerous." La Tribune (February 20-21) writes that she: "Louisa Hanoune, spokeswoman of the Workers Party, is one of the most brilliant figures in Algeria’s political landscape. One of the strongest opposition voices. A born campaigner. When moreover, the reader or the voter discovers in her writings her political history, it is then the image of this admirable woman takes on a different aspect than that circulated by the press. She is in effect, in all battles, alongside all the oppressed and rejected, for all the liberties."
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