La HCC validating the YES victory at the HAT referendum

As expected, the High Constitutional Court swiftly validated the island´s ticket for the Rajoelina Republic. The final but still temporary results published by the HAT´s electoral commission have been validated without a shadow of a doubt. The HCC even seemed to blame those who officially called upon the cancellation of this unilateral and controversial experiment.

With 74.19% of votes at the well oriented question “do you accept the draft as the constitutional text which will lead the country to the fourth Republic?”, the YES answer undisputedly won the showdown. It is a YES to Andry Rajoelina, whose name was simply missing in the draft.

The HAT leader was actually campaigning for his own self, as the constiutional draft has articles supposed to legalize Antananarivo city´s mayor´s grip on power: “Until the nomination of the next President, the current President of the High Authority of Transition keeps on ruling the nation”, the so unnamed current HAT leader being none but his highness. No wonder that Andry Rajoelina actively campaigned for his referendum! the CENI shut the eyes.

The referendum had another stake: the electoral commission´s organizational success and the participation rate. The HAT is scoring on both sides, arguing that “the minor irregularities” noticed in the run out of the electoral process could not have influenced the vote´s outcome. The HCC´s verdict is validating the new constituttion. The “people”´s will would have thereupon been expressed by a virtual 52.61% high participation rate.

THe HCC´s president has obviously read the constitutional project. However, Jean Michel Rajaonarivony emphasized that the new constitution could in no way be serving as a weapon for the current leaders. It will merely pave Andry Rajoelina´s to a couple of strongly dictatorial presidential mandates.

The HAT accepted Antananarivo´s mayor on top of the nation in 2009 without a single shadow of election. After the putsch, the HAT strained to legalize the transition led by Andry Rajoelina and his prime minister Monja Roindefo, the previous insurrectional leaders boosted by a fringe of the armed forces. Now the HCC is validating the HAT´s electoral commission which has a constitutional judge in its ranks, and opposed no legal objection against the Rajoelina sphere´s will to enforce early nationwide municipal elections