Brigitte and Saraha, democracy from the ladies’ point

An engaged ecologist

In 2013, Rabeharisoa Saraha seems to stand the best chances to line up against no less than thirty men. At 43, 
she founded her party in 2009 during the transitional period with little but an electoral victory in sight. The Green 
Party or Antoko Maintso Hasin’i Gasikara has been wandering through the island ever since, and gathering over 
the latest four years some 300 000 militants.

Everything should basically have been ready in 2011, at the expected end of the transitional period. Its extension 
has served the Green Party well. Saraha Rabeharisoa entered the transitional Superior Council als Party leader, 
and resigned with a remarkable sense of duty due to the transitional leadership’s violations of the crisis 
settlement roadmap.

Saraha Rabeharisoa actually advocates a new political culture. She is keen on leading the country to recovery 
over a brand new way to govern. The Green Party advocates true decentralization, namely the opportunity to 
manage their own resources to be granted to each district.

Saraha Rabeharisoa completed her studies in France, graduated in management, founded and leads a shipping 
agency. Saraha Georget Rabeharisoa serves besides as president of Madagascar’s ecological group GREMA.

A femal doctor bound to heal her country’s wounds

Dr. Rabemanantsoa Brigitte Ihantanirina recovered the good old cliche of the doctor longing for remaining true to its oath towards her patients. The first disease she would stand up against would be insecurity. The candidate put forth by the AMP party, the “Women in Politics”, makes out of the need of security the main condition to economic and social recoveries, and promises besides a revolution into rice crop management.

Aged 53, she, who is also known as Brigitte Rasamoelina, already has a decent political know how. From 2003 and 2007, her management of the rural district of Ambohimalaza Miray was exemplary. She attracted the attention of the Association of Madagascar’s Female Mayors so much that she rose to its presidency in 2004.

After this, she contributed to the foundation of the Ampela Manao Politika party in 2013, a social democratic party made by, of and for women. Her rising star opened her the way to the transitional parliament, in which she served as one of its vice presidents. Dr. Rabemanantsoa Brigitte served previously as doctor on La Reunion island and founded in 1997 a private clinic in Antananarivo city.