Politics

The enforced recovery of a HAT way shadow of constitutional order is finding it hard to convince the various political tendencies, including the Rajoelina mobility itself. Ambroise Randrianavonison and his "legalistic" mobility which broke apart from the Ravalomanana camp keep on longing for a popular referendum to settle the crisis. The citizens would have to decide whether they want any Maputo charter or not. Lire la suite »

The national unity government would be entirely patched up by the majority party after the elections. It smells stupidity, and challenges any political logic. However, Andry Rajoelina keeps on defending his incomprehensible roadmap, continuously isolated in his unilateral train. While being invited by a French TV channel, the young leader of the HAT confirmed that cohabitation in accordance with the Maputo agreements was absolutely off the point. Lire la suite »

The president of the HAT does not pay any official visit in France for lack of international recognition obliges, his stay is, first and foremost, politically motivated. Andry Rajoelina, "Madagascar's man on power" and "France's puppet" pleaded for his cause in front of a panel of French parliamentarians, and had the opportunity to explain his "partial" (???) refusal to comply with the Maputo deals on a TV channel. Lire la suite »

ndependently from the Maputo political agreement between the four mobilities, as well as from Andry Rajoelina's unilateral roadmap, the crisis' outcome is the same one: the elections. The way forward in order to get there is still at the heart of the controversy. Each and everyone's political calculations are definitely blocking the consensus, be it dimmed to ever come true after or before the legislative elections. Lire la suite »

The latest consultation session, basically meant to provide more of national unity make up, proved to have failed to generate any much more progress than the one organized by the Home Affairs ministry in January. The emergence of a couple of proposed dates for the legislative election to be held in May 2010 has saved decency. Lire la suite »

Colonel Camille Vital and his close collaborators have made to military camps, and "paid a visit" to soldiers in order to reinforce the army's unity put to the test by the political crisis. Lire la suite »

The serial " Air Force One 2" keeps going on. The HAT minister in charge of National Transportation, Roland Ranjatoelina, has raised attention when recognizing the dictating authorities' difficulties to sell the expensively bought presidential plane. In spite of a justice decision against the ousted president Marc Ravalomanana, no certainty is to be held for granted concerning the purchase of this aircraft. Lire la suite »

Enough of compromise and cohabitation. In spite of the 15 days long reflection period granted by the International Contact Group to the four political mobilities, Andry Rajoelina stubbornly keeps going on with his a legislative election. He is intending to avoid the necessity to share power either with transitional co presidents or with a national unity Prime Minister, while pretending to be unwilling to remain in power until the Ragnarok. Lire la suite »

Andry Rajoelina has addressed the press like a genuine little es democracy professor! The president of the HAT keeps on defending his project to hold on to his legislative election without having to cope with the other mobilities. He is standing by his incoming reforms to grant any shadow of legitimacy to a vote proving more that controversial. Lire la suite »

Andry Rajoelina in and his mobility's battlements of unilateralism is a new small scale crisis in the general political crisis which has been undermining Madagascar since one year. The International Contact Group is vehemently straining to reconvert the political family's black sheep to the consensual and inclusive Transition signed in Maputo and Addis Ababa. Lire la suite »