Tuesday , 7 May 2024
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The national conference ordered by the HAT and organized by a part of the civil society took some strongly politically motivated decisions. Participants extensively favorable to the dictating authority ratified crucial votes by freehand votes. The dictating authority simply completed a clean sweep over democracy, arguably in order to build new bases reflecting the people's choice.

4000 actors and 2000 voters for an ordered conference

Who on earth are these people who gathered in the international conference center and decided  about the country’s future. According the chairwoman of the “TGV party/association”, all of the Malagasy people from districts and regions beyond view differences. The ruling power’s party which won nothing but an unique election, that of Antananarivo’s mayor, is logically the most represented. TGV committees hugely dominated the national conference, reinforced by supporters representing districts.  

 

Did the ruling power boost the guest list in order to insure majority in this meeting? It wouldn’t the authority’s first ever attempt to get the upper hand in Ivato’s international conference. A large number of participants was supposed to pledge consensus and inclusiveness to the meeting. The strategy is still in service, even though it is repeatedly failing from convincing. Freehand votes deciding about national issues.  

 

On this account, the participants’ number raised from 2000 to 4000. If the 2000 supplementary weighed on proceedings, he/it is not acquired that they are not part of the 2000 others that had the right to vote. Manipulation became flagrant when the voting process started. First of all, the interro-negative question was overtly byous. The TGV committees’ majority and the HAT supporters among the electors left no room for surprise as for the result.  

 

The ruling authority and the TGV party can be delighted with the resolutions of their national conference. Andry Rajoelina is increasingly unvulnerable on the transitional authority’s top. The Constitution is adapted to him. Simply removing the potential presidential candidtate’s compulsory age would have been politically correct. The conference rather chosed to reduce it to 35 years since the young Rajoelina is 36, not 40.  

 

Marc Ravalomanana and the other political prisoners of 2009-2010 won’t get any amnesty. The selective amnesty remains an option when crime relevance is being defined by those in power. On this point, the HAT and the TGV already got a condemnation against president Ravalomanana. The genuine enemy to put down is not only one man but a political strength potentially likely to embarrass with democratic  principles.