“Dinika santatra”: the Rajoelina authority’s B plan

The talks’ first stages within the civil society’s associations proved to be low level ones. The masquerade turns into an opened secret when citizens are invited by the ruling authorities to propose what it takes to isolate the opposition’s politicians. National and international recognitions of its neutrality in the process is everything that the HAT is expecting from these “Dinika santatra”. In the run of its national assemblies, regional conferences, its “Teny ifampierana” or Widened Consensus, this umpteenth attempt would have to nothing but the collection of thousands of proposals concerning the nation’s future from districts. 

The “Dinika santatra” mainly addressed the future Constitution, this and that has to be included in the fundamental law, propositions popped up from everywhere. The Constitutional Advisory Committee is still in expectation for these allegedly non political before drawing a pattern. Amnesty and national reconciliation have equally been addressed. These themes were a clear display of the pro HAT civil society’s weight. The young TGV party did not make a secret of its support for the dictating power’s leader. 

These “Dinika santatra” turned into an opportunity to defend Andry Rajoelina’s super president statute as well as his political future after the Transition. “I will never pledge any extension of the Transition” declared the elected mayor of Antananarivo in Mahajanga. The TGV consequently proposes to integrate various other political groups in the HAT, the fake senate made of the late Rajoelina sphere. According to the party which paved its way to top power through a municipal election, so will the executive power’s watchdog be erected. What a surprise that the opposition is dimmed to get a majority within it. 

The forcibly anti HAT and anti Rajoelina idea put forth in these “Dinika santatra” is the quest for a political settlement prior to any electoral deadline, in other words, settling the crisis and recovering international recognition during the transition. The dictating authority does not buy it, and puts its money on an international recognition of its alleged neutrality in the current process to be an opened door to transparent elections, “democratic” being ruled out for being organized by an unconstitutional government change originated regime. 

The Rajoelina authority and its government were short from swearing to implement their “teny ifampierana”‘s resolutions drawn in April 2010. The roadmap failed. This time around, the “Dinika santatra” are politically less ambitious. They would lead to neither resolution nor decision, but only to proposals. Would the HAT succeed in patching up a consensus through believable neutrality? Nothing is yet to be held for granted, since everything is going to depend on the National Dialog’s legitimacy. The brand new Civil Society’s Organizations’ National Committee produced no comments concerning the “Dinika santatra”‘s impact, let alone that of the National Dialog. 

Talks to gather politicians in order to find a political settlement are just being started