After the clashes, legalistic demonstrators avoided Tsimbazaza

“You won’t be able to stand against those security forces!”. So read a statement produced by a state police colonel on December 22nd, and directed at the three mobilities’ demonstrators intended to invest the national assembly’s palace. It was a deterrent following hours of face to face meeting and calls to pull back. 

As a matter of fact, demonstrators finally had to make their mind up. A new call to resume the party was launched on December 23rd. But this time, the security forces were on their own in front of the national assembly. A full year long crisis might have taken a toll on Marc Ravalomanana’s partisans’ devotion of early 2009. Bare-handed courage is starting to dry out to confront all these trained bullies armed with sticks and loaded rifles.  

The surroundings of the palace of Tsimbazaza were, on December 23rd, consequently quiet. The president of the late Convention, Mamy Rakotoarivelo, is constrained to hide away for being targeted by an arrest mandate. The Maputo agreements apparently are things of the past. Andry Rajoelina happens to be the lone master after God. His supporters are already chanting victory. The pro-Rajoelina media groups commonly reflected an alleged “failure” of the three mobilities as describing the attempt to install the congressmen.