Politics

Beatrice Attalah has taken quite a beating from the press. Honor would have gone lost, she would have sold the country out to the international community when refusing to upset the electoral calendar at the current ruling power’s bidding. Be she, the President of the Electoral Commission, did not shudder and kept holding on. Still a couple of questions remain: how much of her credit did she drop, according to her opponents? And the more valuable one: did she prove to be the man of the situation, able to carry the electoral process out in 2013? Lire la suite »

Five years ago, it was definitely unthinkable because of the constitutional reform banning citizens with dual nationality to become candidates in any presidential election. The constitution itself has been turned upside down in order to pave Rajoelina’s way to the presidency, or at least to grant him an unlimited term in office. In 2013, France is even allowed to put its citizens as candidates forth, even if Paris has not yet revealed its new pawn’s name, now the former one has run out of breath. Lire la suite »

Alors qu’il a mis la classe politique dans un nouveau chaos en tentant de modifier l’ordre des élections pour favoriser son parti TGV, Andry Rajoelina subit un véritable examen de passage pour ce qui est de sa mission d’organiser les élections et de laquelle il s’est détourné pendant deux ans, tenté de rester au pouvoir durant et après une longue transition. L’attitude « moramora » du premier ministre agace le chef de la transition qui tente un dernier coup de Poker à l’ONU pour ne pas perdre la face aujourd’hui et le pouvoir demain. Déjà, il met la pression sur le gouvernement pour appeler les électeurs aux urnes le 08 mai 2013 pour élire... les députés. Lire la suite »

Leonardo Simao, the SADC’s leading mediator, of the SDC, recovered Madagascar among others in order to explain the recent conclusions reached by the Troika concerning the crisis settlement process in Madagascar. Andry Rajoelina and his political horde are straining to prevent President Marc Ravalomanana’s come back home before elections for the sake of securing victory. But everything seems to challenge them. Lire la suite »

The TGV, the artist, the DJ is back, and will be back again in 2018. Rajoelina made a show of the announcement in Toamasina city of his presidential candidacy five years from now, while emphasizing an alleged self sacrifice consented by his good natured heart in spite of the pending easy one round victory in 2013. The head of the transition carried on with his propaganda campaign through populist speeches and parties with the youth. Lire la suite »

It was half a surprise, and a full one for his openly greedy supporters and political allies: Rajoelina’s latest show time was the quite emotionally cast announcement of his pull out of the presidential race supposed to take place in 2013. To save face, the young would be president who claimed the country’s leadership two years ago, decorated his speech with the good old national sovereignty again. On which account addressing such a value? Hard to explain. He has been undisputedly ruling his dictatorship without being elected, using tricks to extend his illegal mandate beyond transitional standards, playing a deaf ear to the international community for nearly two years. He is widely found wanting and yet, claims to be worthy of representing national sovereignty Lire la suite »

This year’s economic growth and bleak balance sheet proved worse than last year’s. It doesn’t matter much. Andry Rajoelina highlights his spectacular achievement in a quick look back in order to serve his personal and exclusive campaign for the presidential election. This handful of sparkles supposed to cover the widespread darkness is being financially supported by assets, origins of which remain a mystery to Prime Minister Berizky himself. For the first time, an unelected leader is allowed to decide on his own about State assets, and have an undisputed say concerning national expenditures. The few public investments vastly more served propaganda purposes rather than any public spirited program. Lire la suite »

No, he will not be France’s candidate and may no longer parade as its official minion. He is openly dejected by the United States of America and the SADC attempts to push him to the door. Will Andry Rajoelina curry favor with this certain number of BRIC States, interests of which have been all of a sudden awoken in Madagascar? On the national level, only political groups so far lacking elected figures took advantage from the transition and fiercely defended their putsch making savior in the name of national sovereignty. The question remains unanswered in 2012. Maybe he has the wanted answer in his mind. Lire la suite »

Bragging, defiance, little "declarations of war" ... the HAT leader’s string of reactions caused by the SADC’s Troika’s meeting’s outcome announced on December, 8th, 2012, is increasingly growing in radicalism. Andry Rajoelina has actually put his money on a massive, personal, exclusive and foregone propaganda in order to mock the regional organization ever attempted to support Marc Ravalomanana and his will to come back home in quality of presidential candidate. Things are now different, since the Tanzanian President Kikwete surprisingly convinced the exiled Malagasy president to give up his candidacy. Stunned by this latest and unexpected development, the year 2009’s putsch maker finds so far nothing better than hardening his stand in order to try to keep in control. Lire la suite »

As an outcome of the SADC’s Troika’s meeting held in Dar Es Salaam on December 8th, 2012, the regional organization in charge of the settlement of the Malagasy political crisis has for the first time stood a ground about the couple of main core issues, the frame of the enduring political tension in the country. Marc Ravalomanana is fully entitled to return to Madagascar just as every Malagasy exiled political figure, must get convinced of keeping away from running the next presidential race. His political opponent who lead the militarily supported putsch in 2009, namely the transitional leader Andry Rajoelina, will have to emulate though. Lire la suite »