Monday , 6 May 2024
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President Hery Rajaonarimampianina properly plays the clock and puts those unwilling to team up with the majority he needs to govern the country to the test. The appointment of the Prime Minister is not yet on the agenda for lack of compromise. The debate on the constitutional provisions is far from over . The challenge is the following: toppling the Mapar parliamentarian group from its self proclaimed leadership and recover control over the National Assembly and, in short, get rid of Rajoelina as potential head of government.

PMP or MAPAR , who does not lose a thing from waiting?

In the Malagasy political life, situations usually take a different course and major decisions are made while the president tours abroad. Since Hery Rajaonarimampianina has fled to the United States to meet with the Secretary General of the United Nations and the leaders of the Bretton Woods institutions, someone must be up to something here. The former finance minister took off with confidence since the IMF has officially announced the renewal of its support to Madagascar .
The Malagasy president is thereupon in for negotiations with donors without having fulfilled a major criterion yet, namely the constitution of a democratic government expected to inspire stability and peace. So, the situation is likely to take a favorable turn before the appointment of a new prime minister.
Would the United States possibly take a political will to avoid any prime minister not matching their democracy standards into consideration? Hery Rajaonarimampianina basically scurries for the sanctions depriving Madagascar from the AGOA deal’s profits to be lifted.
Back home there is officially no institutional vacuum The president reiterated his full confidence in the head of the former transition government. Omer Beriziky keeps the home safe while the president is out. The Rajoelina supportive ministers do not rule any longer.
The highlight of the day was the absence of the new head of the National Assembly when three new members of the Constitutional High Court appointed by the President of the Republic swore their oath. The Presidency principally relies on the Platform for Presidential Majority (PMP) to make the election of the permanent office unconstitutional.
Christine Razanamahasoa was not fond of being forgotten by the High Constitutional Court while all the other heads of transitional institutions still in charge attended the ceremony in Ambohidahy alongside the elected president. Although it did not come up to a formal offense, Andry Rajoelina’s former Minister of Justice accuses the High Constitutional Court of denying acknowledgement to the President of the National Assembly. She consequently challenges the Court’s impartiality in its future decisions.
So what sort of decision does make the MAPAR shudder so much? Rajoelina’s political platform realizes that some people in the ruling power’s inner circle do what it takes to keep its guru out of the game. Any new interpretation of the Constitution’s Article 54 would allow the president to turn away from a potential prime minister named Haja Resampa.
The MAPAR, supported by the Special Parliamentarian Group keeps claiming the right of the leading majority to be his and does not display any shadow of will to negotiate with anyone. Do some parliamentarians’ trouble with the law justice possibly constitute a political motivation? The pattern clearly reveals that the clocks plays for the president’s PMP longing for securing a majority in a future government led by someone chosen by the President of the Republic. As long as parliamentary groups are not formally introduced in the Assembly, swapping sides remains possible. The MAPAR deputies get a move on. They want to hold a special session in order to consolidate their political advantage. The new High Constitutional Court is likely to make their task harder.