Quarrel between Rajoelina and Roindefo: there is no fire without smoke

The upper spheres of the transitional authority are being embarrassed. Andry Rajoelina announced his amazement at the published document which relates his Prime minister’s demand for the HCC’s opinion. « The idea to dismiss the Prime minister has never passed through my mind, there is not a problem between the chief of the government and I « , declared the president of the HAT. 

Andry Rajoelina wonders why everyone lingers on the subject. « I don’t have a problem with the Prime minister, you may ask him whether he has got a problem with me « , he jokingly said. Anyhow, the HCC’s president didn’t appreciate that home business had been made public, although he just appeared astonished rather than offended. 

The Monima party steps into the show. It associates the Rajoelina-Roindefo duet to the popular movement and emphasizes that the alliance must be preserved. This political grouping actually defends its single political deed of glory, after decades as underdogs in electoral showdowns. The Monima is campaigning against any possible consensus in Maputo which would alter the present transition’s diagram. 

Here is the letter 

Monja Roindefo addressed a letter to Ambohidahy in order to know whether the president of the HAT is allowed to dismiss the Prime minister or not. The legal mist persists because nobody knows whether the HCC has to refer to the constitutional texts which give to the president of Republic the authority to dismiss the government’s chief or not. Is the Third Republic’s constitution still valid? The HCC’s opinion provides no more explanations. It is more a political than a technical matter.  

« The government’s chief has to be maintained as long as the High authority of transition’s resolution (HAT) remains valid « , noticed the HCC. In this resolution, the name of Monja Roindefo is associated to the Prime minister’s function. Therefore, the judges of Ambohidahy extol the continuity of the state. They are politically protecting Monja Roindefo for the sake of a stability hardly found by the Transition’s regime. 

The Monima party qualified Monja Roindefo’s initiative toward the HCC as a logical reaction following the signature of the Convention of Epinal by Norbert Lala Ratsirahonana. There have been rumors on possible government change. Some observers evoked tension between Roindefo and Rajoelina before the incoming pitiless electoral race. 

The Monima will expect for its convention in mid-August to announce whether Roindefo will be standing as candidate to the presidency. He can only make better than in 2006 and his historical score of 0,001% or about forty votes throughout the country. This monumental failure has been presented as a pull back since the candidate lacked the means to have voting ballots. Thanks to his role as Prime minister, and the possible adoption of the unique ballot, Monja Roindefo is allowed to have genuine ambitions.