The HAT anti-Maputo resolution: power to be enhanced by a widened opening

In Ivato on March 04th and 05th, 2010, the primary point pledged by the HAT debate’s resolutions was, of course, the confirmation of Andry Rajoelina on top of the country’s dictating authorities. The slight difference with the Maputo Charter and the Addis Ababa additional act is the lack of power sharing on top command. The Rajoelina mobility got further more recognition from « its » guests: the HAT Prime minister Camille Vital is kept in charge. The duet ought to be reigning on the country until the end of the year 2010.  

Where is the consensus in such a government? The colonel’s mission is the drafting of a « national unity » government opened to « all » political forces as well as to the civil society. However, the present governmental staff, although erected in 72 hours by Monja Roindefo, is basically supposed to be matching this criterion. The HAT succeeded in corrupting some figures from the three other mobilities, but these are, now, perceived as full members of the Rajoelina mobility.   

Since the Rajoelina mobility’s government ministers are apparently untouchable, the big opening is going to come true within the HAT institution. As being reorganized by Andry Rajoelina, this finally powerless assembly has been reduced to the role of an advising chamber, so why not making a clean sweep there for the sake of inclusiveness? The opening will welcome the political forces, the civil society and various other entities which turned up in Ivato. It amounts to some 500 places to be found! Here we are definitely away from the Maputo and Addis Ababa agreements defining a distribution scheme for the responsibilities during the inclusive and consensual transition.  

Even the constituent assembly’s assignments remain confused. The idea of a national assembly of transition has been dropped. It means that the future deputies will have no say in the government’s constitution, and might only have to be there and say yes to the next Republic’s constitution. What matters for the HAT is the specification that this assembly’s members would have been elected. According to the Maputo charter, congressmen were supposed to be designated by political mobilities. Only a referendum on the constitution was meant to pave the way for universal franchise.  

The Ivato meeting has not settled all of the independent national electoral Commission related issues yet. The priority was the confirmation of the HAT leader, of his Prime minister, and their unilateral election of a constituent assembly. The widened consensus is restricted to a very pointless political declaration. « The CENI is going to prepare a fair, free and transparent election, and reassess the electoral texts and laws « . The scoop is the unexpected fact of entrusting the electoral law to this basically politically neutral institution. The HAT led national conference is rather going to tackle different issues: the Constitution, the amnesty, the communication code, the law on political parties. It will particularly assess the way to keep control of the Rajoelina mobility’s contenders, as well as the definition of a statute for the opposition’s former chiefs of state.