Andry Rajoelina: “elections are the only solution”

No matter whether the mediation’s joint team strives to call the Rajoelina mobility to reason and have it comply with whatever has been signed in Maputo or not. Andry Rajoelina is holding on his position, fully committed to move forward with his “unilateral consensus” whose first outcome has been the creation of the Monja Roindefo governement II. “The government has to be acting to get elections capitalized”, he said. The president of the HAT is challenging once again the international community’s representatives who had already warned that any vote organized in an one-sided way won’t be recognized. 

And yet, Andry Rajoelina is reckoning upon these elections to put an end to the legal confusion in the country, on the one hand, and to earn international recognition, on the other hand. “Whatever is the assessed solution, only the elections in the end” are going to break the deadlock. This runaway forward is actually attesting the questioning of his capabilities as “chief of state” on top of a Transition figured out through the Maputo negotiations. Andry Rajoelina straightaway turns down any consensus effectively lethal for himself. “Power belongs to the people, so does the choice of its leader”, it emphasized. 

Andry Rajoelina is, in conclusion, backing the position adopted by one of the HAT wings and by the Forces for Change supportive of him and Prime minister Monja Roindefo: forgetting the Maputo agreements. The president of the HAT is not as categorical as locking the door and dumping the key. He is, somehow, leaving a shadow of political will to move toward coalition according to the agreements signed with the three other mobilities. 

Stronger 

Concerning the dead duck in New York, where he failed to make a speech to the UN, the young chief of the transition appeared positive, even pulling some satisfaction from his stay. “I have been received as all the others presidents”, he claimed. Andry Rajoelina is making a distinction between the host, the UN, and the guests, its country members. He said to have inquired about the reception of Madagascar’s particular situation from a very high UN official. 

Andry Rajoelina openly displays his pride raised from his participation to high level meetings beside genuine chiefs of state. Is this de facto recognition? In any case, the president of the HAT is boasting to have signed two international agreements in the name of Madagascar. The scandal of his double eviction from the list of speech makers would even have been erased. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Rajoelina dixit)… whatever that happened in New-York makes Andry Rajoelina stronger” declared… Andry Rajoelina. He is there ready to clear for action against enemies longing for nothing but knocking down his transitional regime.