Benja Razafimahaleo: the international financial support is not compulsory

A far reaching opinion was needed by the Roindefo government members who are campaigning against the obligation to give in to the international community. The Treasury secretary said that the country has allegedly been displaying certain autonomy since the setting up of a de facto transition, and that it can well carry on this way. 

“It won’t matter if we don’t receive any international helps”, asserted Benja Razafimahaleo. The Budget and Treasury secretary maintains that state accounts are full enough to run the administration. “We had already said that civil servants’ wages could be paid until December 2009, today we can say that it remains feasible until June 2010 “, he promised. 

Minister Razafimahaleo’s optimism has no limits. “Our economy is recovering without the international helps”, he protested. As well as failing to put any precise economic index forth, he’s failing to signal the impending backlashes of international sanctions over the economy, could the authorities of the de facto transition keep on turning the consensus down. 

“It is a pride to be able to move forward without helps “, said the Budget and Treasury secretary. Benja Razafimahaleo is claiming personal satisfaction from that. “This is making us stand tall, we can be proud that the country is truly becoming independent”, he boasted. “Foreigners don’t give orders to Madagascans no more”. 

The Treasury secretary’s message is purely political. Benja Razafimahaleo, from the party Leader Fanilo, was also appointed on the place of May 13th to be part of the insurgent government. He would be bound to jeopardize the country’s economy to preserve the Roindefo government as well as his own job. It’s been so hard for Leader Fanilo to find an opportunity to meddle into the decision making state sphere. 

So far, opinions about Madagascar’s capability to do without international financial backing have been given by politically engaged economists, and their points happen to be rather extremists. After the government’s members, the HAT also got involved in the economic propaganda. The “independentists” have been invited to make some exposal in Anosy. The creation of money is being proposed as the alternative to the foreign financial help.