The HAT to the look-out at the announcement of Marc Ravalomanana’s possible return in Madagascar

Rajoelina’s partisans have repeatedly been prompting the police forces to remain alert during the latest days. The head of the joint headquarters of the army, colonel André Ndriarijaona, has more particularly been invited to stay on his guards. The partisans of the High Authority of Transition are actually taking Marc Ravalomanana’s come back promises very seriously. 

“Coastal surveillance must be reinforced” protested a proxy of the president of the HAT. Rajoelina’s partisans have equally been shocked by the fact that some army officers, recently found guilty of making thundering declarations in favour the full implementation of the Maputo agreements, had not been “re-educated” despite their openly personal and extra hierarchical initiative.  

 Yet It is not the first time that Marc Ravalomanana announces a forthcoming come back in the Great Isle. This time around though, the HAT really takes the situation seriously. The adversaries of the ousted president on the watch, from fear of a Honduran script of the Malagasy crisis.  

Some others of Andry Rajoelina’s supporters went as far as denouncing pastor Lala Rasendrahasina’s recent return in the country as president of the FJKM protestant church and Marc Ravalomanana’s former collaborator, since the latter has remained until  now the reformed church’s vice president. The pastor’s return, after some months in exile, is considered by Rajoelina’s proxies as a premonitory sign of the ousted President’s come back to Madagascar. 

One thing a least is to be taken for granted: Marc Ravalomanana will make to the African Union’s headquarters, in Addis Ababa the Ethiopian capital, on next November 3rd, to take part into the four mobility leaders’ talks. His supporters are only betting on the ousted president’s return in country to reverse the tendency in the crisis opposing him to Andry Rajoelina since January 2009.  

 Marc Ravalomanana’s decision will definitely depend on the outcome of the mobility leaders’ meeting in Addis Ababa. At present, the president in exile is firmly against the assignment of the Transition’s presidency to Andry Rajoelina, although a slight part of the international Community is reckoning with the young putsch maker.  

Could the Addis-Ababa stage fail to provide satisfaction to Marc Ravalomanana, he will have no other option left but hitting the road to the Great Isle, play it the hard way with all of his supporters to conquer the power, and eventually force the other sides involved in the crisis to negotiate. Let it be noticed that the Rajoelina camp is well committed to move forward in its transition, without Marc Ravalomanana.