Andry Rajoelina, a future candidacy announced with quotations from … the Supreme NTM boys band.

In “The World of Tomorrow”, Madagascar will not be rid of he, who has plunged it into a deep crisis and an even more dramatic poverty for the sake of straining to secure his profits by retaining an illegal and illegitimate during the latest  four years. Rajoelina announced his candidacy for the year 2018’s elections as ordered by France’s foreign office minister Laurent Fabius. He revealed the scoop over rap music, namely with the lyrics produced by the Suprem NTM band which used to rock his turbulent youth in the early 1990s when TGV was nothing but a “crew”, a gang of good looking wealthy kids: “The world of tomorrow belongs to us, whatever happens, the power is in our hands, so listen to this chorus, “declared the freestyling transitional number one with his innate and everlasting passion for rap music.

The message is clear and highly positive! The mentioned cultural allusion is however quite funny, considering that  his Highness argues to walk in the footsteps left by Nelson Mandela, without his political adversary’s stains of corruption, selfishness or greed for power. His Highness considers himself as, I quote, the Madagascan De Gaulle. No one is too young to enjoy rap music, is it? In this sense, no one is too young to become president no more!

The transitional leader’s growing arrogance is actually surprising, since modesty is held as the most suitable mindset to a chief of state to complete missions similar to those he committed to back in May 2010, that is to say, the completion of democratic election without his personal involvement in the race. No way, the propaganda escalated even more in intensity. Thus, in spite of a commitment publicly stated back in 2012, Andry Rajoelina still complains about his so said compulsory sacrifice.
The head of the transition has this time around done better than his statement produced on the waves of RFI according to which he would have no political opponent in Madagascar. By the time, he was actually meaning that there was nobody likely to best him into elections. “If I were running the race, I would be elected at the end of the very first round” boasted the alleged father of democracy in Madagascar. As a matter of fact he was not that wrong considering all the chains to freedom speech, the cult of personality imposed on public medias, the on going persecution of journalists and political reactionaries …

Propaganda and pre-electoral efforts consented during the latest three months by Rajoelina will not become shots in the dark as long as they remain fresh inside the young Malagasy memories as the acts of a creator, a constructor, of the one, who desired nothing but turning their dreams into reality. “We will be back, stronger than ever” he promised to a crowd of young carefree skulls made numb by the show’s spotlights.

Can they possibly realize that one lone man is able to divert US$ 100 million of public assets claimed from a mining company? And for which sake? Can they figure out that the presidency plays a deaf ear on the ministries’ basic needs, leaving barely more than peanuts to their development programs and rather supports the construction of these facilities deemed to serve the glory of the transitional leader? Can they ever catch this up?

Rajoelina drew the list of his achievements: 8 hospitals, 2 stadiums, a coliseum, some 500 social houses offered as a result of a lottery, university housing, further more promises like a road, new bus stations, a new dance hall … Do these cover up achievements worth the widespread havoc and the price paid by the whole of the Malagasy people on a daily basis since the political putsch back in 2009? The list is at least as so long, but how much more dramatic. Only an electoral challenge between the ousted president and the putsch maker would have provided an undisputable answer.