Soava Andriamarotafika deserted the Viva radio waves21/10/2009 | 12:24:02
One of the four journalists, and Viva radio channel animators, who vehemently the president of the HAT, Andry Rajoelina, has left the Viva radio, for the time being, for cause of view incompatibility.
The quartet of the journalists and animators the Viva radio belonging in Andry Rajoelina, has just burst into piece, at least for a certain time. Lalatiana Rakotondrazafy, Rolly Mercia and Fidèle Razarapiera are keeping on animating without Soava Andriamarotafika for cause of political vision incompatibility.
Since December 2008, this quartet has been supporting and animating on a daily basis the mobilization of Andry Rajoelina's partisans on the radio waves, requiring the reopening of the Viva TV channel silenced by the authorities, then requiring the departure of Marc Ravalomanana from power by the beginning of 2009.
Everything seemed to get on well between the quartet's members until outburst of the conflict between Andry Rajoelina and his Prime minister Monja Roindefo. Ever since, Soava Andriamarotafika failed to be heard again on the Viva radio waves. Since several years, this young journalist has actually been member of the Monima party, currently led by Monja Roindefo. It is naturally impossible for him to keep on his usual deeds when his colleagues are throwing fierce words against Monja Roindefo on a daily basis. This latest, refusing his dismissal, is progressively openly confronting Andry Rajoelina, president of the high Authority of the Transition and owner of the Viva radio station.
By the end of 2008, the Viva radio station's quartet of journalists intervened on air as the "private press club" which then restricted to claim the reopening of the Viva TV channel. All four journalists had, although, very quickly become pillars of the street demonstrations in favour of Rajoelina.
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