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The next Prime Minister’s name is the burning stake by now. The MAPAR group was granted 49 seats out of 151 inside the new National Assembly. The Ravalomanana political sphere has 20 deputies in. Hajo Andrianainarivelo’s MMM group scored 14 and former transitional prime minister Camille Vital’s HIARAKA ISIKA party claimed 5 seats. Not any of the other political groups achieved any better than they did, still, the absolute majority in the Lower Chamber will be up to the stands of 41 independent deputies, who swore allegiance to no party yet. Offers from every side obviously stockpile before them. Following the release of results, the Rajoelina supportive deputies celebrated with loud victory chants. “The appointment of a Prime Minister is our prerogative by rights, according to the Constitution” claimed Maharante Jean de Dieu from the MAPAR group. The other political groups and their law experts certainly do not have it this way. The High Constitutional Court is formally being commissioned to interpret the Constitution’s article 54 concerning the appointment of a Prime Minister. Law expert Sahondra Rabenarivo argues that “only an absolute majority and no mere relative majority grants the right to appoint a Prime Minister of its choice to any political group inside the Parliament”
The Special Electoral Court has released on February 6th the formal results to the legislative elections held on December 20th 2013, and as expected, did not create any massive contrast to what the National Electoral Commission published either. A relative majority is being granted to the former transitional leader Andry Rajoelina and the MAPAR, his political group. Still, the other political groups are commonly planing to join forces and oppose Rajoelina and his devoted deputies.