The appointment of Addis-Abeba doesn't excite the HAT16/07/2009 | 16:24:49
The possible representatives of the High Authority of Transition will take part quite unwillingly in July 22nd's meeting in Addis-Abeba under the aegis of the international Contact Group.
The resumption of the talks on the Madagascan crisis in Addis-Abeba, at the African Union's headquarters, doesn't really convince the members of the High Authority of Transition. Prime minister Monja Roindefo himself displayed his scepticism. He affirmed that hea new meeting between the political parties doesn't make sense.
The HAT doesn't expect anything more from the resumption of negotiations. Its stand didn't evolve at all since the political takeover by Andry Rajoelina in last March.
In the backstage of the putschist regime, the meeting is already openly reputed "dimmed to fail ".
Roland Ratsiraka, vice-president of the HAT has indicated that the designation of Andry Rajoelina as president of the Transition is no more negotiable. He estimated that the other parties could participate in the government and in a new parliament. He also specified that the return of Marc Ravalomanana in Madagascar is excluded.
The president of the HAT himself, Andry Rajoelina, also displayed his reluctance. "We've been negotiating since February in vain" he protested.
Less than one week before the appointment of Addis-Abeba, the Ravalomanana block is the unique political entity which publicly announced its involvement in the meeting. Fetison Andrianirina, of the Marc Ravalomanana party spokesman, specified lately that the negotiation should permit to define a Transition involving all parties.
The Ravalomanana party's proposal is based on a power sharing between the different political entities. The president in exile could recover his seat, with a power to define subsequently, whereas the present chief of the Transition could have another position. The ministry’s and the new parliament's seats will then be distributed between the different parties.
Scepticism finally took over, as talks didn't even start yet. The African Union, as well as the whole international community, keep straining anyway to find an agreement between the political parties. An eventual compromise should lead thereafter to the signature of a Transition’s charter. This would define the sharing power between the different political parties.
Collaborators and hard liners supportive of the High Authority of Transition are longing for definitely getting rid of the roadmap drawn up by SADC, and preparing a fake putsch to this end. The main stake is the way to keep former President Marc Ravalomanana away from the island´s ground whatever it takes, although such a homecoming is allowed and required by the roadmap as part of the crisis settlement process.[See]
The Marc Ravalomanana sphere is getting ready to welcome milady Lalao Ravalomanana, the exiled president´s wife. She is supposed to reach Ivato´s airport on Saturday, February 4th . Having a member of the Ravalomanana clan recovering home soil seems to be boosting the former President´s supporters who have so far been waiting for almost three years. The movement´s leaders announced Lalao Ravalomanana´s homecoming as "great news".[See]
The meeting between the committe addressing the recovery of political stability and the transitional parliament did not meet the expectations. A couple of hours long talks proved not enough to agree on the possibility to turn any amnesty bill up to the end of this month[See]
Madagascar´s Union of Magistrates is intending to complain against the HAT´s Minister in charge of Internal Security, Arsene Rakotondrazaka, following the two months long and finally unsuccessful request of the national police chief´s resignation. The certain number of police officers in the run of the Rehavana Michel case proved not enough.[See]
The KMDT formerly devoted to the High Authority of Transition and to Andry Rajoelina, is now willing to stand out. This political group now requires Rajoelina´s resignation and intends from now on to play the hard way. The situation is increasingly complicated for the empowered political parties.[See]
The HAT´s justice Minister, Christine Razanamahasoa, holds the adoption of any amnesty bill before February 29th, as recommended by the SADC, as impossible. A far as he is concerned, Norbert Ratsirahonana, who represented the transitional leader, Andry Rajoelina, at the meeting in Pretoria, that Ravalomanana's return home before February 27th was off the point. Rajoelina´s collaborators fiercely opposed reports produced by Marc Ravalomanana´s supporters at the end of the meeting in Pretoria.[See]
Marius Fransman, the mediation´s number one nearly told the Malagasy political leaders off as if they were in a kindergarten, and described them as irresponsible; Marc Ravalomanana for having decided to return in spite of the pending jail sentence, and Rajoelina for having prevented this return in violation of the roadmap.[See]
The snapshot creates the stir after being published in a Malagasy capital city newspaper. It displays a foreign military, white skinned, standing alongside the forces summoned High Authority of Transition in Ivato to deal with Ravalomanana supportive demonstrators gathered in order to welcome the former president supposed to be back on Saturday, January 21st.[See]
On Tuesday, January 24th, following former president Marc Ravalomanana´s failed return home, the SADC summoned all of the main political leaders in this crisis, namely Marc Ravalomanana, Andry Rajoelina, the transitional regime´s number one, as well as Albert Zafy. The Ravalomanana sphere has already confirmed its participation. Andry Rajoelina, he who endorses the responsibility for banning Marc Ravalomanana from coming home, cannot expect roses from this emergency meeting, bearing in mind that the repression of the former president´ supporters at the airport in Ivato, led to one more casualty, another brick in the wall of the Malagasy political crisis.[See]
The possibility for Marc Ravalomanana to get diplomatic protection in the run of his come back is seriously startling the supporters of the High Authority of Transition. This possibility was addressed by the Viva Radio station, the station of the current leader of the transition, Andry Rajoelina. Absolutely nothing actually denies diplomatic protection to Marc Ravalomanana, for the international community is the one looking after the implementation of a certain crisis settlement roadmap clearly granting to each and every political figure exiled on political grounds the right to safely return to Madagascar.[See]
