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Viewing cable 06BAMAKO1415, CANVASSING BAMAKO VOTERS: T-SHIRTS, CASH AND COLD

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BAMAKO1415 2006-12-15 08:29 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bamako
VZCZCXRO6004
RR RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHBP #1415 3490829
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 150829Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY BAMAKO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6599
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS BAMAKO 001415 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ELAB ECON EAGR PGOV KDEM ML
SUBJECT: CANVASSING BAMAKO VOTERS: T-SHIRTS, CASH AND COLD 
STORAGE 
 
REF: BAMAKO 01379 
 
1.  Summary:  The Embassy called on fish vendors in the heart 
of Bamako's largest market to measure grassroots support for 
newly proclaimed presidential contender Soumeylou Boubey 
Maiga.  Echoing the sentiments of local fruit sellers 
(reftel), fish vendors regard Maiga as an attractive 
presidential candidate.  Medina market vendors said Boubey 
Maiga was the only candidate genuinely interested in the 
plight of those earning no more than a few cents a day in 
profit.  In a presidential campaign where the two main 
contenders - ATT and National Assembly president Ibrahim 
Boubacar Keita - are generally portrayed as too imperial to 
mix with the working poor, there may be room for a dark-horse 
candidate willing to rub elbows with the masses.  End Summary. 
 
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Fish, and Votes, on Ice 
----------------------- 
 
2.  Salimata Coulibaly and her 100 member Medina Market Fish 
Vendors Association feel their situation has become more 
precarious during President Amadou Toumani Toure's (ATT) five 
year presidency.  Between truck rentals to bring fish from 
the coast, ice, bribes, and fees for sales space, margins 
remain razor thin, despite a sales price per kilo that is 
double her acquisition cost. 
 
3.  As president of the largest fish vendors association in 
Mali, Coulibaly hoped ATT's election in 2002 would relieve 
some of the economic pressures weighing on her and her fellow 
vendors.  "We supported ATT long before he became president," 
said Coulibaly.  During the 2002 campaign, ATT and First Lady 
Toure Lobbo Traore invited Coulibaly to their residence to 
court her and the market women she represents.  Coulibaly 
said she left ATT's residence with 100 ATT-For-President 
T-shirts, the CFA equivalent of USD 200 in cash, promises to 
renovate the Medina market and ATT's personal telephone 
number.  Coulibaly never heard from ATT again.  "Nothing 
happened after the election," she complained.  "ATT even 
changed his telephone number." 
 
4.  Determined not to "undersell" their votes again, for this 
presidential election Coulibaly and the Medina market women 
are holding out for bigger fish: a cold storage room.  As far 
as Coulibaly is concerned, only Soumeylou Boubey Maiga is 
genuinely interested in the plight of Bamako's working poor. 
She and members of her association scoffed at the thought of 
voting for National Assembly president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita 
(IBK) and chuckled at the idea of IBK paying a visit to fish 
sellers in Medina.  Only Maiga, said Coulibaly, has a history 
of advocating on behalf of groups like hers and following 
through on promises to provide essential goods or services 
like, for instance, cold storage capacity. 
 
5.  Coulibaly left no doubt that she could deliver the votes 
of her constituents and their families for Maiga, whom she 
recently met at a campaign event.  "We all vote," she said of 
her association members, "and everyone follows me." 
Coulibaly's deputy, however, sounded a more cautious note. 
"We haven't decided who we will vote for," she said.  "We are 
waiting to see who will help us.  If Soumeylou Boubey Maiga 
doesn't give us anything, we won't vote for him." 
 
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Comment: Fishing for Votes 
-------------------------- 
 
6.  Malian elections, like many in Africa, have turned more 
on personality and regional affiliation than on party 
platforms, issues, or ideology.  It remains to be seen if the 
positions taken by Coulibaly's association and the fruit 
vendors (reftel) indicate an encouraging evolution of 
democracy - or simply an attempt to hold out for a bigger 
pre-electoral payout.  It may, however, have crossed Maiga's 
mind that running a "populist" campaign could give him an 
edge.  While the Medina fish vendors were hopeful of swapping 
their presidential votes for a cold storage room, they also 
hinted that they would likely vote for whomever took the time 
to visit their market and listen to their concerns.  Working 
vendors may offer a viable campaign base for a populist 
presidential candidate, and if Boubey Maiga proves to be the 
only candidate willing to canvas the neighborhoods of Mali's 
working poor and go after the vote of every day folk - rather 
than let the voters come to him - he may perform much better 
than his opponents expect in April 2007. 
McCulley