Nothing but positive from Brussels: Monja Roindefo plays on words

Downgraded by the legalistic and other anti-HAT sides, the authorities of the transition try to stem the tide of their disastrous attempt to claim the European Commission’s recognition of a regime set up in last March after a long Coup process. Prime minister Roindefo affirmed that Andry Rajoelina and his delegation’s journey was not negative. 

The reason doesn’t surprise any more: “the EU is conscious that the political context in Madagascar is difficult “. Monja Roindefo added thus that the Commission sent a message of encouragement to the Madagascan delegation. The Commission ” wishes to walk with Madagascar” in the resolution of the political crisis. 

The chief of the transition government doesn’t seem more worried than that by the EU’s dissatisfaction about the roadmap. “If they are not satisfied, we are going to improve it “, he said. Out of question though to meet the international community’s expectation for a return to constitutional order. The HAT is going to improve its one-sided proposition. 

“We, Madagascans, must first take in account and see what is satisfying to us, then next to them “, insisted Monja Roindefo. He played on the semantics to give credibility to the HAT’s roadmap. Terminological explanation: the word “inclusive” to qualify a transition does no more question the present structures, that is to say the HAT, the concern is to include the other parties in the HAT or in any other institution fit to make the transition’s convention. 

For the word “consensual “, Monja Roindefo said that it concerns the process of inclusion. The HAT is therefore ready to consult the other sides on their entry in a transition’s melting pot controlled by Rajoelina. In clear, it is no reconstruction but an opening motivated by the need of recognition from the international community. 

In this mind, there is no return to the constitutional order even if the HAT’s roadmap is improved. This concession less position is a big step backwards compared to the point reached by the international Group before its suspension. 

The so far proposed HAT’s opening only aims at providing it institutional majority and legitimacy. As for the small portfolios in the government, as the ministries of the Sports or agriculture, five seats for the TIM in the HAT compared to the 44 pro-TGV, a third of the future convention’s proposed seats to the others… well, concessions that valorise the HAT and weaken its adversaries.