This paper analyses the forms of self-presentation developed by three candidates campaigning for the 2002 Moroccan legislative elections. This study enables to point out that political legitimacy in the slums can use numerous registers, and to show how the body can be an important argument of electoral seduction. The opulent body of the political patron, the young and dynamic body of the candidate-militant, the handicaped body of a candidate able to represent (in every sense of the word) the weakness of the slum’s social body, can be interpretated as many resources of propaganda. However, physical legitimisations only operate if this political mise-en-scene rests on concrete proofs overtaking or confirming appearances.