The Secretary-General of the Algerian Football Federation was forced to publish a statement, yesterday, on the official website of the FAF, notifying public opinion, the media and members of the General Assembly of the change in the location of the electoral General Assembly from the Mercure Hotel to the Technical Center in Sidi Moussa.
Anyone who contemplates the preparations for the election of the third president of the FAF during the same Olympic period is fully convinced that there is unprecedented resistance to a “wing” that forms an unnatural alliance between a group of people, and these people are determined to close the way to the option of change, even if this is achieved at a great cost, as evidenced by the fact that The rally around Meziane Egil and the announcement of opposition to Walid Sadi’s candidacy carried with it a series of conflict and insistence on presenting the “opposition candidate,” in a scene that was forcibly absent last year when one of the presidential candidates was Jahid Zvezif who received the same recommendation from the “wing” during his competition for the “seat.” “With Abdel Hakim Sarrar, who at the time was affiliated with the same party as Mohamed Rourawa, just as is the case with the only candidate currently, Walid Sadi, who is affiliated with the same man, Mohamed Rourawa.
The new situation in place, which resulted in Zvezv’s resounding loss in the elections for membership of the CAF Executive Board, led to the authority’s conviction that Algerian football was heading towards the unknown, and the conviction increased even more about the necessity of extracting it from the grip of the adventurers, at least by “paying more attention” to the “partials.” Which, perhaps, was absent from the authority regarding the need to respect legal procedures in the process of determining the identity of the candidates for the presidency of the federal government, in light of the “evasiveness” that was prevalent on the part of those in charge of the electoral process, in terms of the legal reading of the articles in which “interpretation” prevails in favor of the situation.” Candidate” at the expense of another, which made the FAF, in the face of a certain wing extending its authority over the General Assembly and the Federal Administration, a hostage of a large “group” that included even those who were forcefully affiliated with the sports media, until the situation seemed more dangerous than the mind could have imagined.
The insistence on imposing Meziane Ighil as another candidate alongside Walid Sadi, and in any way, even if the man did not meet all the conditions for candidacy stipulated in the Basic Law of the FAF, and in the Executive Decree of the Federations 22/309, was nothing but a strong indication that the “group” that had grown and penetrated In the sports system, with its actors, media, mediators, and beneficiaries, and those who are employed to cross the red lines with the defenders of the law and those who refuse to keep the system mired in corruption that serves a certain “wing,” it is ready to fund more for its mouthpieces and to make stronger use of all the “weapons” in its possession, even the illegal ones. To prevent the birth of the new era, or at least to ensure that the “calculated”, from their perspective, Ali Muhammad Rourawa does not reach power at the level of the FAF, until this strange insistence provided conclusive evidence that there are terrible scandals that perhaps the revolting “wing” is keen on covering. Hiding it from public opinion and from the authorities, after the situation of “global federation” turned, in record circumstances, into a state of unprecedented humiliation.
What is frightening is what is happening, as the new FAF elections have taken on great dimensions in terms of fierce resistance and beatings below the belt of honest and professional journalists, despite their small number, and of the only candidate and even of the representative of power, that the “insane desire” of these people to challenge the law and legitimacy has led them to fall into the forbidden, to the point that the option Federal officials’ unprecedented organization of elections in a hotel, instead of the Sidi Moussa Center, provided strong indications that the hands of the “group” had reached the current wheels of government at the federal level, and had made it hasten to deviate from tradition by making the elections open to all, by holding them in the “Mercare” Hotel after… Preparations were made to reserve rooms for known troublemakers, with the aim of “mingling” or to intimidate the electors and the only candidate.
Unfortunately, history will preserve a miserable stage in the history of Algerian football, which reached the point of opposition driven by a faction to confront change and prevent the reveal of a dark page of management, to the lowest levels of decadence, until the “higher interest of the country” became the last concern of those who call themselves “elite.” However, History will, on the other hand, fortunately, preserve the keenness of some to close the way to “closure” plans with premeditation and anticipation of every change on their part, after the last cards of “mixing” were dropped and with a final blow, as soon as Al-Faf announced, yesterday, forced, and in an official manner, that… Moving the location of the electoral General Assembly scheduled for September 21, 2023 from the Mercure Hotel to the Sidi Moussa Technical Center, which will only be entered by members of the General Assembly and accredited media personnel, excluding adventurers, opportunists and clowns.
