Monday 23 March 2009

Day 1 : Kinght & Rabbits

The campaign started today, March 19th, the day of a big symbolism in Algeria since it's the day the French and Algerian Negociators have agreed on the terms of French Withdrawal from Algeria, although some pretend they never actually did, and just left by the door to come back by the Chimney as a evil version ofs Santa Calaus, but seriously they never really left, because mind you, a lot of people don't want them to.

So let me introduce the characters in this play, you have the knight, Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the current president, and surely to be the next, and the other five ones, Mr Jahid Younssi, Mr Ali Fouzi Rebbaine, Mr Mouhamed Said, Mr Moussa Touati, and Mrs Louis Hannoun, the latter five famously known as « the rabbits », the rabbits being these contenders who participate to a race only to give it a pace, but who do not intend to win, or know they can't which is also
the same thing, at least in terms of results.

So let's say it's a period of three weeks, like when we were kids and parents leave the house for some urgent business, and you can do anything until they come, well it's just that these days in Algeria, it's some kind of a truce, which won't last a long time, but it's better then nothing, so everyday you have half an hour of five people criticizing the govenement, then the governement
praising itself, and insisting to what matters the most « you gotta participate » because if you don't you are a bad citizen, and everybody wants to be the good amongst the bad.

It is always funny to see the five « other » candidates speak of themselves as « «presidentiall candidates », which is the truth in a way, but in the same time, they should be exactly called « presidential candidates bound to lose » , the other funny thing being that they speak of their « programs », because when you don't have a chance to win, you can promise anything, so they give some imaginary solutions, like in a bad fairy tale, it's reminds me when my father was in the coma, and we were all leaving in denial, and denial is sweet, until the day he actually passes away, and then you will have to swallow all the bitterness you were avoiding in one shot, and burn your throat.

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