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Elections will take place within two months, yet, the transitional leader did not step down, though it was emphatically required by the crisis settlement roadmap as well as by the electoral code. While heading the ruling power, he runs the presidential race. Quite a schock for scores of challengers, who, at least legally applied for the right to become presidential candidates before May 27th Lire la suite »

The African Union will not grant any international credit to any local presidential election as long as the three presidential candidates held as "unwanted" keep on insisting on running the presidential race. Mediator Joaquim Chissano emphasized this point in the run of the Union's summit held during the latest week end in Addis Ababa. Yet, none of the three concerned candidates, namely Andry Rajoelina, Lalao Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka, has until now made not a single move in the direction of the required pull out Lire la suite »

Andry Rajoelina, de facto leader of the current transitional ruling power, is normally supposed to resign from his position, considering that his controversial candidacy at the incoming presidential race was just as so controversially allowed on July 24th. And he will have to step down before May 26th. And the other candidates serving with the ruling power will also have to emulate. But the whole clique keeps skirting around this obligation and use the potential postponment of the elections as a pretext to do so. Lire la suite »

The prospects of elections on July 4th of this year are dwindling with every single day, just like the local electoral commission's cash reserves. The financial support cannot be granted. The President of the National Electoral Commission does however not appear willing to drop the towel yet. Lire la suite »

The city named Fianarantsoa, located in the southern part of Madagascar's central regions, has been invaded by legions of migrating locusts. The occurence happens to be seldom enough to deserve a say. The invader massively assaulted green spaces. According to eye witnesses, swarms of locusts hovering above the city plunged it into the dark for a while. The FAO reports that nearly half of the national territory has now been conquered by some 500 billions of locusts. Lire la suite »

Each and every official presidential candidate serving into the transitional government, the transitional parliament or any other public position, must resign before this year's May . Le président de la 26th, according to the electoral code. Not even the transitional leader is normally allowed to skirt around this compulsory must. Could Andry Rajoelina ever be attempted to forget to comply, the International Community, will simply cut financial supplies to the elections short Lire la suite »

In the run of a ceremony held at the City Council's building in remembrance of the popular movement which took place back on May 13th 1972, Andry Rajoelina, the transitional leader, confirmed that he is bound to take part into the presidential race basically expected to start on July 24th. He finds no ground at all to pull out from the presidential tournament, as he used to pledge shortly before. Lire la suite »

Jean Omer Beriziky gave a piece of his mind to the Special Electoral Court when condemning a "far too flagrant blunder" as a response to the validation of Andry Rajoelina's candidacy to the incoming presidential election basically expected to take place on july, 24th. The Prime Minister declared however that he could nothing but ring the alarm bell in face of such a deviation. The transitional government is actually not allowed to touch the Special Electoral Court members. Lire la suite »

Former Malagasy president Didier Ratsiraka, current candidate running the incoming presidential elections basically expected to take place on July, 24th, strongly opposes the use of the "single ballot". He holds this project as foolish, considering the unexpectedly high number of candidates and the high rate of illiteracy on the Great Isle. "Not even developed countries are making use of any single ballot. I wonder why on earth should a developing country like Madagascar ever go for it." declared the former president in a talk show produced by the TV PLUS channel. Didier Ratsiraka believes the use of the single ballot to pave the way for electoral frauds since lowly educated voters would become more vulnerable to cheats, namely by being prompted to put more than one cross down, which would automatically ruin the vote as a whole Lire la suite »

the current transitional leader will have to resign from his position before this year's May, 26th. The electoral code actually wants any acting state leader to step down at least 60 days before the presidential election's D-day. Not even Andry Rajoelina can afford to skirt around this obligation now that he surprisingly entered the presidential race basically expected to take place on July, 24th. Lire la suite »