Opinion

The sensible issue created by former first lady Lalao Ravalomanana’s need to recover the country on humanitarian account, definitely put Andry Rajoelina’s eventual willingness to finally respect the crisis settlement Roadmap, especially its famous Article 20. The head of the transition pretended to give in, however presented a complete set of conditions to his so named concession. To make a long story short, he tries to prevent his opponents to draw any political capital from this event. In between, the young politician plays the perfect son in law. Read More »

It’s always been so: diplomacy has always been and will always be the weak point of the HAT ruling power led by Andry Rajoelina and Norbert Lala Ratsirahonana. Yet, the mayor of Antananarivo keeps braging an outstanding diplomatic victory, for having been recognized as president of the transition by the international community, and for having met as such the United Nations’ Secretary General in New York City. Read More »

In spite of an actually very much logical political disqualification, namely because of his military supported putsch in 2009, the young transitional leader of the TGV party pleases with believing to have been bested by overwhelmingly superior forces. His real truth about the events in Madagascar has always been failing to convince an International Community which would have allegedly made him a victim compelled to consent self sacrifice. Andry Rajoelina, just as so pretentious as usual, the self-proclaimed greatest African chief of state of all times, was able to avoid civil war and, renounced to power as no other patriot would ever do, the greatest builder the world has ever seen since ... King David. Read More »

After a four years long term, including two years spent on top of a dictatorial transition rejected by a growing part of the Malagasy people and dejected by the international community from scratch, the leader of the HAT remains unsatisfied and still yearns to misuse democratic ways of doing in order to collect legitimacy for his putsch originated ruling power… with no one but his own self on top. Read More »

Marius Fransman’s umpteenth mission has not brought much significant changes. The SADC’s optimistic assessment of its mediation’s achievements is not forcibly widely shared. It presumably tried to reduce the equation’s complexity to a matter of a couple of variables, however in vain. The Malagasy crisis is increasingly puts down roots. For lack of will to comply from the Malagasy, the International Community is likely to be compelled to take a stand and impose a decision, or eventually sanctions. Read More »

The year 2009’s putsch makers happen to be desperately longing elections. For having failed to capitalize his wishes five times in a row, Andry Rajoelina now relies on technical parameters. The crisis would be over, once an illegal ruling power propelled on top by riots and a military uprising. So why being so hurried? The longer the illegal transitional period extends, the more legitimacy is being lost by the illegal dictatorship as a matter of fact Read More »

General Richard Ravalomanana did predict in one of his famous prophecies, the opposition would be creating unrest in order to destabilize the ruling power regime few days to the historic date of May 13th. The HAT’s armed forces cleared for action against a purely virtual wave of terror. The population is no more shivering out of terror, for it has somehow got used to the constant insecurity installed by the transitional power Read More »

The national reforestation campaign was supposed to be a twice more relevant milestone event. On the one hand, growing rosewood forests anew instead of the usual polonias, ranvintsara and eucalyptus should have been an occasion for the Rajoelina regime to call for some redemption. On the other hand, the event was expected to display an evidence of solidarity in this transition supposed to be consensual and inclusive transition meant. But nothing went it was meant to. Read More »

Rajoelina tackled his unconstitutional term in office in Madagascar three months after Barack Obama’s electoral victory in the United States. The American outgoing president now has to run the electoral race anew, but the leader of the dictating power in Madagascar keeps on firmly clinching on to his position one year after the end of the deadline given by the HCC to restore order after the unconstitutional government change. Despite Andry Rajoelina’s understandable self-satisfaction, the score sheet of his three years long dictating role is clearly a disaster. Read More »

The HAT revived the trial concerning the military putsch, allegedly attempted inside the BANI base camp, in order to charge the intellectual Raymond Ranjeva and permanently eliminate Lt Colonel Charles Randrianasoavina. This trial is openly violating the roadmap supposed to be held as the single law in Madagascar. The verdicts are reflecting how independent justice in this country really is. The court presents itself as a political instrument in the ruling power’s hands. The Union of Magistrates doesn’t want to be blamed for it and challenges the Minister, but why now? Read More »