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La rencontre au sommet, qui devait réunir le président de la Transition, Andry Rajoelina, et les trois anciens présidents malgaches, Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka et Albert Zafy, ne pouvoir pas avoir lieu finalement. Car Marc Ravalomanana a été empêché par les autorités malgaches de rejoindre Antananarivo. Les chefs militaires s'opposent en effet au retour de l'exilé d'Afrique du Sud. Quoi qu'il en soit, les chefs d'église du FFKM ont tenu à réitérer que la rencontre entre les quatre chefs d'Etat auront lieu. Les modalités de sa réalisation sont en cours d'étude. Le probable compromis entre les chefs militaires et le FFKM serait l'organisation de la rencontre en dehors de la capitale, Antananarivo. Mais il ne sera pas facile de convaincre les trois anciens présidents qui ont exigé la tenue du Sommet dans la capitale malgache. Read More »

The civil servants' trade unions assessed the political situation and its social side effects. Their Interministerial Crisis Management Cell has called upon the main political decision makers to follow the path held as the must judicious one in order to reach any viable settlement to the never ending crisis, namely the path marked out by mediation process tackled by the Confederation of Christian Churches, the FFKM Read More »

Lalao Ravalomanana's bodyguard Jean Marc Koumba, got interrogated by at the national state police station over three hours. Policemen made him clear that he was circumventing the law while serving the former first lady as bodyguard, and granted him some respite to make his situation fully legal. Lalao Ravalomanana's followers promised to do what it takes to this end. Read More »

Lalao Ravalomanana's body guard has been summoned by the police forces. The german gabonese national Jean Marc Koumba is being expected at the police station of Fiadanana on Monday, July 1st. Too bad, he is not available for the moment and will abide when he'll be back to Antananarivo city Read More »

No less than two heads of major transitional institutions boycotted the ceremony held at the Palace of Iavoloha on June 26th national Independence Day. Transitional prime minister Jean Omer Beriziky and transitional congress' president Mamy Rakotoarivelo deprived the stage from their presence, just as the whole of the diplomatic body did. The transitional leader must have never felt so isolated. Read More »

Pulling out of from the presidential race, he does not want to hear about it. Stepping down from his position as transitional leader is equally off the point to him, for no one knows yet, when would the elections eventually develop. Andry Rajoelina firmly intends to attend June 26th's official celebrations as a legal chief of state would. When opening a hospital in Fianarantsoa city, the transitional happens to be currently keen on putting his best foot forward in order to strenghten his position as much as possible while he still can, since his political challengers do not favour the hard way to expell him... not yet Read More »

The National Independent Electoral Commission has addressed the eluding presidential election's candidates on June 21st in its facilities in Alarobia. The Electoral Commission solemnly announced that the elections basically supposed to take place on July 24th will not and gets officially postponed. The electoral propaganda which started on June 23rd is consequently cancelled. This matter of fact was obviously not to the liking of most of the concerned candidates. Read More »

The transitional parliament is being turned into a battleground by the issue related to the institutional void on top of the ruling power, could the transitional leader ever decide to step down as he is supposed to. Transitional Congress members are addressing the related legal texts, and the Ravalomanana sphere's transitional parliamentarians stepped out the room as an evidence of protest, and slammed the door behind. The concerned law draft would actually transfer the whole of the ruling power to each and every transitional government member "if" the current transitional leader "ever" decides himself to step down. Potentially a second to none show in history: an island would have 35 chiefs of state at a time! Read More »

That's the way it has to be. The current electoral schedule can no more remain viable, in spite of the International Community's willingness and optimism. The acting president of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENIT), Mrs Atallah Béatrice, clearly stated that technical issue require much longer to get settled. No presidential election's first round will consequently take place on July 24th Read More »

Lalao Ravalomanana, the former first lady has, by the end of the week, tackled her campaign in the North of Madagascar, while, Andry Rajoelina, the self proclaimed transitional leader and her main opponent took the opposite direction, and opened a hospital in Toliara. Let the challenge begin. The SADC has however just been having its meeting in Maputo and emphasized as a consequence that it would pledge no recognition to any election involving any of the three candidates rejected by the international community. Everyone is playing a deaf ear to that so far. Read More »