Mamy Rakotoarivelo beat his main rival Voninahitsy Jean Eugène by 184 to 130. The Marc Ravalomanana sphere´s spokesman is being elected president of the transitional Convention but the political spites never truly faded away.
Series of incidents littered the session within the upper chamber, the transitional superior Council (CST). Parliamentarians supportive of Marc Ravalomanana kept away from it due to the violation of the inclusiveness principle within the management of the CST, and to the failure to erect the commission to address the issue.
In spite of the opposition in the present management of the Transition, political rivalries are in no way nipped in the bud.