Friday , 17 May 2024
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Will the almost unanimous vote of the Amnesty Law for the sake of National Reconciliation be reconciling the Malagasy? The year 2009’s putsch makers’ virtual majority in both parliamentarian chambers actually fixed the debate from scratch. The challenge remains the same: Andry Rajoelina must not have to confront Marc Ravalomanana in the presidential race. The amnesty law in its current shape happens to be thoroughly contradicting the roadmap’s mind. Its purpose is to rule the odd ones out

An amnesty law against national reconciliation

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The Rajoelina sphere welcomes its victorious adoption of the Amnesty bill number 007/2012. It was a foregone conclusion since the sphere divided itself in political forces so that the number of its representatives gets triple the number of transitional parliamentarians. When two thirds of the available seats are unmistakably devoted to a cause, victory makes no doubt any more. This illegitimate majority happens to be the one deciding about the country’s future?
“The Congress might will be a palace of democracy, but the truth is that there are not elected in this institution. Nobody can pretend that they truly represent the 20 millions of Madagascans “, analyzed Mamy Rakotoarivelo from the Ravalomanana sphere.
The Monima party argues that “the amnesty must be addressed by legally elected parliamentarians”.” The party of Monja Roindefo denounced the TGV’s justice minister’s loophole of answering questions only after the parliamentarian vote.
“This amnesty bill does not match the roadmap,” added Damy in the name of the Monima Party. “There is neither consensus nor inclusiveness, but merely a faked majority,” he added. “This kind amnesty will pledge no solution to the crisis,” concluded a Monima party longing for “healing and reconciliation prior to the amnesty.”
Albert Zafy is meanwhile holding the whole process as a waste of time. “Scores of these people – the members of the transition – are judicially charged and condemned. They are not allowed to pass any law in their own favor. The former president called upon reconciliation prior to any amnesty.
Inculsiveness but no majority
The Ravalomanana sphere walked out of from the room twice during the process, from the Congress as well as from the Supreme Council of the Transition. The Rajoelina sphere holds the step as a normal reaction to an inevitable defeat. Putsch makers are thereupon claiming a democratic victory.
“There is no more democracy here. Anyone might well be allowed to say almost anything, but no one else makes decisions”, declared Mamy Rakotoarivelo. There should be neither majority nor minority because we were in for a consensual and inclusive transition”, explained the president of Congress.
“Not a single potential amendment to the draft was taken in account. Such a bill will pledge anything but peace and certainly create another crisis within the crisis”, regretted Mamy Rakotoarivelo.

In the end, the Rajoelina sphere happens to be the single one deciding of the amnesty bill for the sake of national reconciliation. How could national reconciliation ever be tackled when the ones to reconcile are still enemies? No matter. It is merely one more step to the elections for the TGV party. Mamy Rakotoarivelo warned the international community against the HAT’s unilateral manipulation of the roadmap.