As much mistrust as delight caused by the Rajoelina – Ravalomanana two party talks

Rajoelina straightforwardly emphasized his willingness to meet Marc Ravalomanana. « I am bound to look for remedy for Madagascar, no matter how far I have to go » he declared in his speech on June 26th. The TGV no longer publicly roars its intention to prevent the former president’s potential recovery of home soil although the party’s will to tackle talks abroad never fades away.

The organization of the meeting in Madagascar remains possible. « I have been making it clear since patriotism is my motivation » declared Rajoelina when trying to justify this U-turn in front of his supporters. The leader of the imposed transition ended his speech with a traditional call upon the political class’s consciousness to « consider the best common interests above all. »

The Ravalomanana sphere actually expects a couple of capital things from this round of two party talks, namely the exiled president’s come back home and the correct implementation of the roadmap. The Opposition gathered inside the Magro square does pledge support to the SADC’s permanent office led by ambassador of South Africa, the main organizer of this meeting between the major figures in this crisis. The other political forces previously opposed to the renewal of talks seem to have given in. They merely want all those who signed the roadmap to be involved in the crisis settlement process.

Mistrust: France’s excessive eagerness to act

Even France, supportive of Andry Rajoelina from scratch, seems committed to accepting talks with Marc Ravalomanana as talks with the major key player in the crisis. The new ambassador hopes the meeting to be going well and a positive impulse deemed to lead to the preparation of elections to emerge. IOC, the regional organization highly influenced by France promises to wait for the election of Madagascar’s democratic president before changing the rotating presidency and promised support to the crisis settlement process.

The African Union mobilizes troops anew and sends emissaries to support the SADC’s permanent office in Madagascar. Everything seems to be fine since these foreign partners apparently happen to be more impatient to restore political and institutional order in Madagascar than the Malagasy themselves.

Manandafy Rakotonirina recovered however the headlines by producing a speech challenging an apparently perfect situation. The member of the CST stemming from the Ravalomanana sphere denounced publicly the new French strategy deemed to regain control of the government in Madagascar. He mentioned a certain report that would equally be in the hands of the French ruling power.

France would be pretending to play a low profile and moving pawns like the IOC and the AU to the front lines do the job. Since Marc Ravalomanana can no longer be hindered from coming back home, they would do what it takes to politically weaken him, according Manandafy Rakotonirina. The President of the MFM party revealed that Paris holds Andry Rajoelina no more as its pawn number one. The current head of the transition would soon be cast aside in order to make way for a true man of France, to a certain extent for the sake of the return to normality.