From: jisrawi@physics.rutgers.edu (Najeh Jisrawi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.french
Subject: Algerie: Ils parlent d'elections !!!!!
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:17:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: ruhets.9210140217.AA17173
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science

Assalamu Aleykoum, 
 
I have just received a letter from the Algerian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
regarding the revision of the electoral lists in Algeria. I was asked to 
forward a request form to the president of the APC (President of the Local 
City Council, or Mayor) and ask him to add, delete or register anew 
my name in the electoral list. I am including here the exact replica of 
the form I recieved.
 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+                                                                     +
+                                                                     +
 
+                       A Monsieur le President de                    +
 
+                            l'APC de ........                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+                        s/c de Monsieur Le Wali                      +
 
+                            de .............                         +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   Monsieur le President,                                            +
 
+               J'ai l'honneur de vous demander de bien               +
 
+   vouloir proceder a,                                               +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+     - mon inscription                                               +
 
+     - ma radiation                                                  +
 
+     - ma reinscription, sur la liste electorale de votre commune.   +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   Nom:  ....................................                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   Prenom:  .................................                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   Date et lieu de naissance:  ..............                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   Fils de:  ................................                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+   et de :   ................................                        +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+                                                                     +
 
+            .........................                                +
 
+                                                                     +
+               Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le President de             +
 
+               l'APC, l'assurance de ma haute consideration.         +
 
+                                                                     +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 
 
Having always been keen to exercise my duty and right to vote, I decided
to send this letter. Before doing so, I had the chance to discuss the issue
with my family backhome in a telephone conversation. During the conversation
I learned that the President of our APC (our elected Mayor) was arrested after
the coup of Jan. 11, 1992 and sent to an internment camp somewhere in the 
desert.
 
Whoever is sitting illegally in his office does not deserve to receive 
letters sent by citizens to the intention of the freely elected President of 
our APC.
 
I would therefore suggest to the actual occupants of the Algerian Embassy
to show a minimum of decency and respect to our institutions. May be they
can provide us with the exact address of our APC President in the 
concentration camps, it might help us getting in touch with them.
 
Wassalamu Aleykum.