Brickaville: Andry Rajoelina already in for a…candy campaign

The speech from the president of the Transition evolved a little: over with the popular development programs supposed to respond to the people’s wish expressed on the place of May 13th. In Brickaville, Andry Rajoelina appeared more pragmatic. He defined the mission of the transition as being, first and foremost, the return to social peace and economic stability. On the political plan, the transitional government is going to tackle the preparation of elections. 

The first challenge for Andry Rajoelina will be the alteration of the Republic’s constitution so that it can run the presidential election. “We need a constitution adapted to our time”, he has emphasized. According to the president of the Transition, this new fundamental text should be preventing against anyone striving to oust the leaders, as he did. Andry Rajoelina wishes, besides, the Constitution to grant more relevance to Communes.  

The young president of the Transition clearly has the presidential elections on his radar screen. Although he lost his bet of organizing unilateral elections, Andry Rajoelina still grants relevance to these meant to be free, fair and transparent poles. In Brickaville, the young man already behaved like a candidate, a fairly known exercise for having run for the capital city’s town hall. 

Andry Rajoelina still likes to speak of himself to the third person. The Sirama was the first topic of his propaganda as president of the Transition. “Andry Rajoelina comes to bring a solution… Andry Rajoelina brings light”,  Andry Rajoeilina dixit and so on… “There had been a lot of promises, what we do is working and not promising”, he added to entertain the audience. 

The work in question concerns the restart of the sugar industry in Brickaville. The president of the Transition “offered” an envelope of 1.9 billion of ariary to pay the workers’ wages. The show time got its effect, even though solution and light are actually far from being as efficient as they are meant to be. They are 31 months of unpaid wages. The Sirama has about 3000 employees of which part time workers. 

The generous gesture allegedly from the president of the Transition, actually from the State, is merely a buoy to remain afloat. The Sirama will be able to run again only until the resumption of privatization comes into effect. For Andry Rajoelina, the Brickaville event is an operation of communication. The president of the Transition came “to bring something a candy taste” to people’s daily bitter life. 

Andry Rajoelina specified that he is the lone leader by insisting on the fact that both of the “co-chairmen of the presidential advice” do not rule with him. Andry Rajoelina confirms the taboo in his mobility’s ranks and in media programs devoted to him: recognizing both co-chairmen of the Transition is off the point. His justification would be the Addis Ababa Act without its final chapter which could jeopardize his pretended statute.