And what if the next president of Madagascar were a French citizen?

No other living Madagascan is more French than Andry Rajoelina as a matter of fact. He has been the former colonial power’s reliable instrument to recover political control it was never intending to drop. Already in 2009, a large French multinational company used to bring presidents in Africa down generously supported his action to overthrow the democratically elected ruling power. The Elysée’s babe doll during Nicolas Sarkozy’s term has move aside in 2013 as eloquently hinted by Laurent Fabius. The TGV promises a dazzling comeback to come true in 2018!

In between, the casting for the role of France’s next star at the presidency keeps going on. Tantely Andrianarivo happens to be enjoying a comfortable position. Former socialist president Didier Ratsiraka’s former prime minister is supposed to be part of the best technocrats alive in Madagascar. He only needs an amnesty, although some political groups are vividly standing against such a thing. His health is, besides, no more what it used to be, and might constitute a burden for his candidacy.

The second best runner up in the race to become France’s next best pawn does not enjoy a single shadow of local popularity but for being a cousin of a certain late Francisque Ravony, former prime minister and French citizen. His name sounds like Roland Etienne Jules. The preparation of his presidential rise would have been on track since 2009. The presidential ambition is a contagious sickness which generally infects those, who served as prime minister at least once in lifetime … and bearing in mind that a large number of these civil servants also served the French motherland, no wonder that General Albert Camille Vital equally caught it. For officially belonging to no party, the general will be supported by a political group supportive of the Rajoelina sphere, or most likely by the Rajoelina sphere disguised in such a political group. Beware of the military dictatorship!

He has long been out of the headlines. Eugene Mangalaza was a short while national unity Prime Minister during the transition before Andry Rajoelina recovered unilateral policy. The professor made his will to claim the country’s presidency through electoral means public. The next one!… Her best ever position was that of a minister, but her late husband was indeed one of the first French born prime ministers of Madagascar. Yvette Sylla, Jacques Sylla’s widow, would be bound to dare the electoral odds.

The casting for France’s new star is far from over. Coming next, the expats. Patrick Raharimanana knows nearly everything to be known about electoral processes in Madagascar for having served as a member of the National Electoral Observation Committee. He is settled in France, worked successively as a car dealer, consultant then business coach, and launched his campaign with a poor remake of Obama’s creed, namely “Vitantsika io.” Jacques Rabemaharo , professor of management and economics in a high school in Toulouse, emulates and finds that Madagascar’s president’s shoes perfectly matches his own size!

Among the other declared candidates, some already tackled the seduction campaign, for example Saraha Georget Rabeharisoa, president of the Malagasy Green Party. She actually had the courage to resign from the Supreme Council of Transition while denouncing the repeated violations of the Roadmap, and enjoying quite a large popularity in France. The same cannot be applied to Roland Ratsiraka. He alternatively used to cry wolf and keep silent when need be. The nephew of the Admiral  may stand by some support  in France to a certain extent without the need for a French passport.