The TGV stubbornly keeps on caring for nothing else but itself in spite of the pressure from the international community. Andry Rajoelina ordered his Prime minister Camille Vital to start negotiations in order to capitalize his vision of what a national unity government should be. The erection of his independent national electoral commission would be a point break. Lire la suite »
Politics
The HAT inaugurates the CENI despite a climate of uncertainty
The national independent electoral Commission has officially stepped into action on Friday March 26th, 2010, as its members swore oath to the Supreme court. In spite of political controversy, and despite the bogged down situation, this supposedly neutral and independent institution is running the race with so much blanks that it is well on the way to be tagged as another HAT creature. Lire la suite »
Marc Ravalomanana: the stubborn HAT is jeopardizing the whole country
The ousted president recovered his vivacity as reassuring his supporters undergoing an empowered imposed transitional regime together with the social and economic consequences of the unconstitutional leading power change. Marc Ravalomanana denied to have instigated the AU sanctions, and firmly believes them to be far more constraining than pretended by their targets. Lire la suite »
A CENI with a significant but controversial civil society representation
Nearly all the members of all the transitional junta's erected institutions have been targeted by the individual sanctions pronounced by the African Union. Will the HAT made electoral Commission have to undergo the same fate? The recruitment of its members is strongly looking like a umpteenth unilateral step further away from the Maputo Transitional inclusive Charter signed by all four political mobilities. Lire la suite »
An incomplete and « non consensual » CENI and its very complicated birth
The complicated operation obviously gave birth to a malformed national independent electoral commission. For lack of proposals from the opposition, three out of this organ's nineteen members have failed to be designated. The HAT is naturally holding the opposing three mobilities as responsible for this failure. Lire la suite »
Andohatapenaka case: the HAT gets a new condemnation against Marc Ravalomanana
The litigation concerning a piece of land located in Andohatapenaka has been turned into a "judicial political issue" by the dictating authorities. The court condemned Marc Ravalomanana to 5 years of penal servitude.. The verdict sounds like a HAT political retaliation in accordance with the old law: eye for eye, sanctions for sanctions. Lire la suite »
HAT: The fear to recover the negotiation table
Due to all of the mean words used to depict the Maputo agreements as well as the other political mobilities, the members of the High Authority of Transition are now hesitating on resuming negotiations. Dialog seems, however, inescapable for the putsch making authorities definitely unable to challenge the odds any longer. Lire la suite »
The dictatorial deviation: the dictating authorities are retaliating on the three mobilities
The Rajoelina mobility's series of reactions to the sanctions sentenced by the African Union did not restrict to defiance and challenge phrases. The HAT Law Commission has proposed measures aiming at neutralizing the reactionnary voices. And to make matters worse, the dictating authorities are intending to use the judicial power to ban any shape of opposition from then on labeled as destabilizing activities. Lire la suite »
The HAT army officers targeted by African Union’s political sanction
Apart from political decision making figures in the transitional regime, officials in uniforms also found their names inside the red list drafted by the African Union's Peace and Security Council. The putsch and the transitional management is definitely civilian as well as military. Lire la suite »
Andry Rajoelina: « pathetic » sanctions
The young leader of the dictating authorities was in no way economic with mick as reacting to the implementation of international individual sanctions against his regime's officials. Andry Rajoelina ridiculed the measures adopted by the African Union and emphasized his determination to remain free from foreign influence in his way to rule the country. The targeted HAT members are following suit and openly take the mickey out of the African union. The brashes!. Lire la suite »