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Mamy Rakotoarivelo, acting President of the Transitional Congress, actively emphasized that Marc Ravalomanana's political sphere, of which he is part, has for the time being not yet knighted anyone as candidated deemed to run the incoming presidential race. He was replying to a reporter eagerly asking about potential candidacy from parson Lala Rasendrahasina, President of the FJKM reformed church, a figure who has long been being very close to former president Marc Ravalomanana. Mamy Rakotoarivelo equally declared that the political sphere's leading figures and Marc Ravalomanana himself would soon have a meeting in South Africa and address the incoming presidential election related issue. The main decisions will be produced as an outcome of this meeting. Marc Ravalomanana actually made it crystal clear, that he would not designate any nominee before recovering his home soil Read More »

the presidential party will have its national congress on April 5th and 6th at the Futura exposition space at Andranomena. It is likely to be its hour of truth. The TGV party will have to decide about the presidential candidate deemed to take over Andry Rajoelina. Read More »

The application time for the Malagasy Reconciliation Council is over. Thirty applications in all have so far been recorded. The concerned officials still wait for other potentially mailed applications to appear at the eleventh hour. Read More »

the local Group of Citizens & Civil Society (GSCC) led by Serge Zafimahova and Hugues Rajaonson is planning to turn one city into a ghost town on April 5th 2013, in response to the current political standstill and its social fallbacks. Basically supposed to have come true on March 22nd, the operation got cancelled, then called off in the end. The GSCC is craving for an alliance with other groups in order to strengthen its protest movement Read More »

At least 800 000 voters have no national identification card, and will consequently not be allowed to have their say during the incoming rounds of elections. According to some other specialists, many more people than suggested by the aforesaid figure have no identification card, so an identification card distribution got launched to settle the issue. Unfortunately, the interior ministry is said to be running out of cash to complete the operation to the end Read More »

The political basis to the required restoration of the rule of law gets larger and larger with every passing week. Some fourty associations, trade unions and political groups jointly accepted to support the impulse created by Professor Raymond Ranjeva, former judge at the international court of The Hague. Regional associations equally emulated, and more and more Parliament members individually decide to join the common front as well Read More »

No one speaks up first and foremost in order to avoid stormy retaliation from the ruling power, but clues are generally hinting a rashly increasing rejection of the transitional leader. The on going protests actually have one common goal, namely kicking transitional leader Andry Rajoelina out once for all Read More »

A newly created coalition of progress oriented parties political parties has emerged from the dark. For the time being, the coalition is made of three political parties which do not have any relevant base across the country yet, although their evolution slowly develops. Read More »

Having the Malagasy former first lady finally back home became a cause for hope for the supporters of Marc Ravalomanana, but merely to a certain extent though. At the Magro square located in Behoririka, in which the former president’s supporters regularly meet, joy could have not been complete. The conditions imposed to Lalao Ravalomanana were actually rather humiliating, considering that the putsch originated ruling power dictated its own rules. As expected, absolutely no sign hints any likely come back home to be granted to Marc Ravalomanana. Read More »

Her private jet reached Antananarivo very early in the morning. The Malagasy former first lady was able to visit her mother at the hospital in Ankadifotsy on March, 12th. Lalao Ravalomanana was basically expected at the airport of Ivato in the evening of March, 11th but the aircraft she had to fly on delayed its course on purpose Read More »