Electoral integrity down: big disillusion for Jean Louis Robinson

The Special Electoral Court displays as much self confidence as the Electoral Commission did earlier. Neither critics nor suggestions will be tolerated. Both of these transitional institutions only swear by laws and evidences provided to them, without regard on facts or violations entailed by these very laws and evidences. Electoral integrity has nothing else left but hope that the electoral frauds which littered December 20th’s voting process had not dramatically tipped the scales, or in practical terms, that the fraud threshold of 135 000 stolen votes had not been reached.

Jean Louis Robinson would have fought to the very fatal end for a comparison of electoral reports with those mustered by his staff, as a consequence to which he would have been awarded a 52% lead.  The envoy sent to convince the SADC returned empty handed though. The regional organization sticks with the Special Electoral Court, and consequently invites everyone else to abide by theformal ultimate results.

Emboldened by this pending triumph, Hery Rajaonarimampianina’s jurist squad takes up the offensive. The presidential round two’s shortened electoral register theory is being played down as baseless. The electoral register would have effectively been longer following formal extension. Candidate Robinson’ supporting front actually pointed at a dubious electoral register filled with nearly 400 000 fictional voters.

The Ny Avana party’s candidate required the completion of a comparison between the used and the unused ballot papers. The Electoral Commission was not legally compelled to proceed to this comparison, the Court however was. “Heaps of electoral ballots have actually not been opened up at all” grieved Jean Louis Robinson. And never will they. “We are calling upon diplomatic bodies in Antananarivo, the SADC and the world community to pressure the Special Electoral Court to refrain from a hasty release of formal ultimate results” insisted the trailing candidated. It still has ten days left to do so, according to the law.

The Special Electoral Court also turned a blind eye on the point produced by “electoral experts”, a civil society group. The Court is willing to decide by its own self. The battle is near to get lost for Jean Louis Robinson. The frauds perpetrated all along the presidential second round happen to be covered up by the law. They were perpetrated on broad day light, without a single electoral agent to oppose them. The local ruling power must have found it easy to put its orders through and have its champion declared winner.

Hery Rajaonarimampianina was awarded a 70% lead where frauds were easy to carry out, and vastly more hard to keep track of thereafter. One day before the presidential saga’s final act, he feels confident enough to invite his rival to abide by the electoral judges’ verdict. Jean Louis Robinson rather keeps summoning electoral integrity, and gets a move forward with the on going creation of People’s Choice Defense Committees. So sounds the bell ringing denial of acknowledgement to the next President of the Republic and the entrenchment into resistance. Ladies and Gents, the post electoral crisis has formally begun!