A criminal campaigns for Tebboune
- Anissa El-Mansali dishonours the memory of the late President Houari Boumediene
- The incredible betrayal of the sister of Matoub Lounes, ‘The Rebel’
- Chitana Mkalcha supports Tebboune
This is the lowest turnout since the country's independence in 1962. The organisers of the poll have not been able to get their heads around it. They are dragging it down like a ball of yarn. The total boycott in Kabylia will not be easily forgotten.
In the two largest departments of this region, Tizi-Ouzou and Bejaïa, not a single polling station was opened and not a single ballot paper fell into the ballot box. A historic zero. A real affront to the regime, which this year multiplied its subterfuges to break the Kabyle boycott.
One of the ways Tebboune's campaign management used to win over large numbers of voters was to enlist the help of women. Two female politicians and one non-politician were recruited.... The widow of the late President Houari Boumediene, Anissa Agnès Al-Mansali, the sister of the famous Kabyle singer Matoub Lounes, assassinated on 25 June 1998, Malika Boukettouche, and a girl who works in the oldest profession in the world and who has committed several crimes, as she herself admits in the video (number 2) shown at the end of this article.
Anissa El-Mansali dishonours the memory of the late President Houari Boumediene
Electoral participation is a real obsession for decision-makers behind the scenes. Anything that can help influence the electorate to turn out en masse to the polls is resorted to. For example, Anissa Agnès El-Mansali, widow of the late President Houari Boumediene, was asked to participate in a rally in Paris in support of candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Anissa Boumediene, who had never spoken out politically, surprised everyone. She, who has always harboured a visceral hostility towards all those who succeeded her late husband at the head of the Algerian state, found herself, who knows why secretly, with one of the affidavits of presidential candidate Tebboune. However, not long ago, during an Iranian opposition rally in Paris, to which she was invited, she confided in an ironic tone to an Algerian journalist: ‘Look who is now running Algeria, which was once presided over by Boumediene!’
Anissa El-Mansali, from a middle-class Algerian family whose father owned half of the Diar El-Mahçoul neighbourhood in the heights of Algiers, had met Boumediene when she was a young lawyer, and was going to defend the cause of her father, a producer and distributor of cinema films, a victim of the nationalisations decided at the time by Houari Boumediene.
Although unsuccessful, she managed to win the heart of the most powerful man in the country. She married him at the end of 1973, after a long wait. The marriage did not last long. Four years later, Houari Boumediene died of an unexplained illness in December 1978.
Widowed, she lived away from the political limelight. She devoted herself to historical research and to writing literary works, including a collection of poems dedicated to her late husband, ‘Le jour et la nuit’ (1980, published by Saint-Germain-des-Prés) and the translation of ‘Khansâ’: Moi, poète et femme d'Arabie’. Without having inherited any material goods, not even a car from her late husband, Anissa El-Mansali went shopping in Algiers like any other woman.
It was then that she was attacked by a young criminal as she was leaving a bakery in the centre of Algiers. He snatched her necklace, but passers-by quickly caught her. This was in 1994. On hearing the news, President Zeroual invited her to his office and provided her with a car and driver. She lived on her pension as the president's widow. A meagre pension that increased considerably after Chadli Benjedid's death.
Enjoying the respect of Algerians, Anissa El-Mansali surprised everyone by declaring her support for Tebboune's candidacy last weekend.
The incredible betrayal of the sister of Matoub Lounes, ‘The Rebel’
Another appearance that offended the whole of Kabylia and especially the diehard fans of the singer of freedom and democracy, Matoub Lounès, nicknamed ‘The Rebel’, was the appearance of his sister Malika at the reception of Tebboune's electoral campaign coordinator in Tizi-Ouzou. She greeted him at the headquarters of the foundation named after her brother, whose walls were lined with giant portraits of Tebboune.
However, Malika was said to be tempered in the same steel as her brother. She was considered the worthy heir of this rebel who refused to compromise with the current regime and make concessions on freedom and democracy. And here she is, Malika Matoub, supporting the man who has burned Kabylia for three consecutive years, imprisoned more than 500 innocent people and sentenced 48 young Kabyles to death for no good reason. They are accused of having murdered the young Djamel Bensmaïl, whose murder by the security services has been proven with documentary evidence.
Chitana Mkalcha supports Tebboune
She drives through the streets of Algiers in a luxury car covered with posters for presidential candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune. She is known by the nickname of Chitana Mkalcha (the spoilt devil). The discovery of her profile raises fears for the President of the Republic's entourage.
In a video (no. 1), she declares herself an admirer of Tebboune and says she is ‘ready to die for Tebboune’. She explains her commitment to him ‘because he has served the country’.
As far as she says, she is not a politician. ‘But she is much better than Bengrina, the clown who marked the election campaign with his burlesque outbursts. At least she's not a clown. True, she is a girl who walks the streets of Algiers and understands nothing about politics. But she is not a clown like Bengrina,’ comments one observer.
- ‘Is she a prostitute?’
- ‘Yes,’ replied our interviewer. ‘She is a well-known prostitute in Algiers’, he adds. The proof is this video (no. 2) in which Chitana Lemkalcha confesses that, in addition to being a prostitute, she is a criminal. She assaults the customers she meets in the cabarets and strips them of their loved ones. ‘There are dozens of them,’ she boasts.
Surprising recruitment by Tebboune's election campaign management, chaired by Interior Minister Brahim Merad. ‘They haven't found anyone to campaign for Tebboune who isn't a thuggish-looking prostitute. Those who described the Algerian regime as a thug were not wrong,’ concludes our observer, a connoisseur of the ins and outs of Algerian power.