Andry Rajoelina’s letter to the electoral commission

The transitional leader sent al letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENIT) to ask for the legislative elections to be tackled before the presidential elections. The International Community already firmly opposed the idea, but still, Beatrice Atallah, the CENIT’s president, declared that her department would assess the point. The electoral calendar is expected to be ready and revealed within the next few days, for voters will officially have to be notified before February, 8th. The CENIT conceded that some technical issues do remain unsettled, for example the fact that 10% of all voters have no national identification card. Beatrice Atallah declared that this particular issue would not cause significant trouble to the elections as a whole. The presidential elections’ first round is basically supposed to take place on May, 8th, even if political and technical conditions are for the time being far from suitable to such a process