Marc Ravalomanana for a truly neutral transition

Andry Rajoelina is only a putsch maker. He does not deserve to direct the country. So reads the summary of Marc Ravalomanana’s current stand, as he is expecting for the build up of a truly “neutral” transition, as stipulated by the Maputo agreements and by the Transition’s Charter.  

At the time of a press videoconference session held on Sunday October 18th, Marc Ravalomanana reiterated this position. The current president of the High Authority of Transition cannot be legitimized as president of a new Transition to the fourth Republic.  

All along a phone line interview, the exiled president has announced his will to collaborate with any entity willing to restore legality in the country’s management. In this sense, he did not rule out potential cooperation with the outgoing Prime minister Monja Roindefo, in state of war with the High Authority of Transition since a short while. 

Since his forced departure back in mid-March, it is well the first time that Marc Ravalomanana has granted a live interview to press members in Antananarivo. The phone line interview has been amplified in the great hall of the legalistic movement’s headquarter in Bel’Air. Some pro-Ravalomanana leaders have attended the session.  

Besides, this phone line interview has been an opportunity for Marc Ravalomanana to announce that the next four political mobility leaders talk in the settings of the Maputo agreements would be probably taking place from November 3rd to 5th in Addis-Ababa.  

Marc Ravalomanana emphasized that only mobility leaders were entitled to take the final decision concerning the Transition’s key seats’ holders. Such statement is his way to turn down the pattern adopted during the latest Contact Group and international mediators’ meeting on October 6th in Antananarivo.  The so-named pattern suggested Andry Rajoelina as Transition’s president, Emanuel Rakotovahiny, vice-president and Eugene Mangalaza, Prime minister. 

These different nominations should be waiting for mobility chiefs’ formal agreements to be coming into force. According to Marc Ravalomanana, still based in Johannesburg as for now, “there is no State” yet in Madagascar, for the time being.