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Highlight of the event: Tabera Randriamanantsoa, one of the 33 presidential candidates standing on the starting line, joins the new front standing against the elections. His explanation: “though I am running the elections, I want them to be correctly and not slovenly casted.” Many more other political figures have joined the “front against slipshod elections”, among them Alain Andriamiseza, Mektoub Omar El Camille, Riri be, Henri Lecacheur and so on… In the run of one of their first meetings ever at the Espace Mon Gouter, on the capital city’s outskirts, they solemnly called upon the population to stand against “politically motivated patchworks” potentially lurking behind the will to settle the political crisis. The International Community has largely been getting the blame, namely for having enforced certain measures not that long ago. History will tell, whether the new front will prove relevant enough to halt the electoral process, now that the elections are only one month away.
It is actually all about opposing a light rush to elections likely to drive the country straight into another crisis. again. The movement opposing the year 2013's elections do not stand against the principle merely on the spur of the moment. It is definitely convinced that the Malagasy political crisis will have to get settled by elections, sooner or later. According to the movement's assessment, the settlement of the five years long political crisis has to build first and foremost on common ground. The currently undertaken elections cruelly lacks such a major component.