Confusion on top of the executive power: a transition in the transition

Who is leading the transition, the answer is allegedly still Andry Rajoelina. The country is halfway from the Coup originated transition to the inclusive and consensual Transition defined by the Maputo I agreements in August 2009. Once again, the legal evolution on the situation of the executive power is a matter of free interpretation. The presidency, supposedly the Republic’s one, has already claimed Andry Rajoelina’s new title of Transition’s president as stipulated in the charter signed in Maputo. 

According to the Rajoelina mobility, the president of the HAT would have been knighted by an appointment order of a… Prime minister. By designating the Ratsiraka mobility’s Eugene Mangalaza as transitional government’s chief in an official way, with the four mobilities’s consent, Andry Rajoelina would have had de facto acted as president of the transition. The other Prime minister Monja Roindefo’s led hopeless attempt to resist failed short from causing terrible damages to a Rajoelina mobility presently as torn apart as the allegedly unbreakable couple. 

Monja Roindefo has caused concerns to his camp and to his « president » first and foremost, by calling upon the State Council. He has disputed the new Prime Minister’s appointment order based on a simple declaration from the International Contact Group in charge of mediation in the crisis. To make matters worse as they might already well be, he has come up to questioning Andry Rajoelina’s capacity to be president of the transition. To which end? In face of the HAT allied Forces for Change’s radical stand on one hand, and Marc Ravalomanana’s even more radical one on the opposite side, Monja Roindefo would have been in good position to keep hiss Prime minister’s seat for lack of consensus. 

The State Council’s decision to declare itself not empowered to judge government act of appointing the new Prime minister has immediately interpreted as the legal recognition of the young Andry Rajoelina’s transitional president title. All that is only transitional. The government officially being entrusted to deputy Prime minister Cécile Manorohanta. And here is the rub, the former Defence minister actually integrated the government Roindefo II as being supposed to represent the Ravalomanana mobility, but obviously without the latest’s consent. 

The transitional government within the transition is going to direct the country from now on until the outcome of the umpteenth ultimate negotiation meant to be held from the 03rd to the 05th of November, 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Even though Trébilé Dramé, one of the ICG mediators, has downgraded the additional signatures from the four mobility leaders, the implementation of the Transition’s Charter signed in Maputo will not be addressed without a new agreement.