The HAT made Consensus: « we will make the rest of the world accept it! »

This debate meant to make up shadows of consensus around the Rajoelina roadmap might also be the response to an international community now waving sanctions against Madagascar’s dictating authority. Andry Rajoelina needs a new argument to justify his refusal to resume the Maputo charter’s implementation, and get ready to face up to uncomfortable measures likely to be imposed by the African Union led International Group. « The ultimatum will be over within few days, we are going to rise and denounce the world’s misunderstanding of the Change that we want to capitalize », was declared during the debate’s opening speech on Thursday March 04th, 2010.

The dictating leader waved one more time around the eternal national sovereignty argument against the ICG. « We are going to decide here, we are going to tell them that Madagascans are the ones making decisions for their future », he argued. Andry Rajoelina expects the holding of his patch worked debate in defiance of the international community’s position to be triggering a wave of solidarity from all Madagascans. Endorsing the responsibility of pending international sanctions is certainly not on his schedule: « this resolution is neither from me nor from a single party, it would have been drafted by and for our dear Madagascar « , said the HAT leader to exacerbate the audience.

Andry Rajoelina describes his anti-ICG meeting shop as a « time for solidarity despite differences », in which good governance, human rights and the implementation of true democracy are being addressed. Themes are less confusing on the debate’s agenda: elections, the electoral code, the national independent electoral commission and its members’ missions, and the roadmap to the fourth Republic are, among others, on schedule. « We will achieve the outcome of this debate and make international community accept them « , he boasted. The HAT leader pretended to have no fear of defending « his decisions ». Confusing again, isn’t he?

Robert Razaka, coordinator of the HPM, a coalition within the Zafy mobility, denounced the HAT debate’s unilateral character. « No matter what resolutions will emerge, it will be a dead duck », he warned. The former senator recalled then, that joint management has always been part of the national historical transitional periods. He explained that a convention has been signed in 1991, so the international community kept out. The on going debate is, according to him, an attempt to create a fake convention. Through Fetison Andrianirina’s voice, the Ravalomanana mobility reiterated its boycott of the « consensus » in the Rajoelina way only aiming at strengthening, if ever possible, the present dictating transitional regime. Marc Ravalomanana equally stated himself to his supporters that the international community absolutely has no trust in the HAT, and will accept nothing but the Maputo agreements’ implementation. In between, Andry Rajoelina has rather compose a consensus with his allies and partisans than negotiate with his opponents.