People walk past campaign posters of some of the candidates

People walk past campaign posters of some of the candidates to the upcoming presidential elections, from left, Islamist politician Djahid Younsi, from the Movement for National Renewal, Islamist moderate independent candidate Mohammed Said, Fawzi Rebaine, from a movement known as AHD54, Trotskyite candidate Louisa Hanoun, nationalist Moussa Touati of the Algerian National Front, and incumbent Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Wednesday March 25, 2009 in Algiers. Campaigning for Algeria's April 9 presidential election officially began Thursday March 19 with Bouteflika, running for a third five-year term, widely considered a shoo-in.