Residents walks past campaign posters of Trotskyite candidate to the

Residents walks past campaign posters of Trotskyite candidate to the upcoming presidential elections, Louisa Hanoun, Tuesday March 24, 2009, in Bou Ismail, on the Mediterranean coastline some 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Algiers. Campaigning for Algeria's April 9 presidential election officially began Thursday March 19 with incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, running for a third five-year term, widely considered a shoo-in. Other candidates are nationalists Moussa Touati of the Algerian National Front and Fawzi Rebaine, from a movement known as AHD54.