International recognition: Andry Rajoelina tries to seduce the world’s representations

In a letter, the president of the HAT is currently trying to convince the present international institution representations present in the country that “the Republic of Madagascar doesn’t intend to deny its place in the great international family”. After loud speeches on the refusal of any interference and on the political will to become independent from traditional financial backers, Andry Rajoelina is having low profile in order to try to preserve ties with an international community that could be stepping aside, or even worse, imposing sanctions. 

Andry Rajoelina is trying to justify his “one-sided” initiative to build on his own his “national unity government”. Following the SADC rejection of this first attempt supposedly in accordance with the Maputo mindset, the president of the HAT is taking a move on to limit damages. This regional organization’s position happens to be the base for that of the African Union, which itself strongly influences the attitude to be displayed by the European Union and the other international institutions. 

According to Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar “cannot do away with the interconnection within the global village, as far each part’s sovereignty and mutual interests remain paramount”. Thereupon he is recalling that the” Malagasy population’s interest” is matching those of the Rajoelina mobility. “We don’t rebuke the international Community’s hold of responsibility, however, we are asking it to understand the roots of the will for change demonstrated by the people “, read the letter written by the chief of the transition. 

Although, dropping an inch remains off the point. “The real popular aspirations are imposing us to turn down any compromise because the popular will and the national sovereignty can be neither negotiated nor traded in the setting of political calculations and blackmail”. Andry Rajoelina definitely doesn’t want to negotiate either with the international institutions or with the other mobilities, but keeps requesting recognition for his de facto transitional regime. 

The message is simple: refusing Andry Rajoelina means denying the Malagasy population whose “determination had led to the settlement of the HAT”. Estimating to have already made too many concessions, Andry Rajoelina recalled that his mobility has been keeping the dialogue going with the different mobilities, either in Antananarivo or in Maputo, while taking “the heavy responsibility to direct the implementation of the people’s genuine aspirations”. 

The HAT made propaganda is slamming “the international community’s die-hard attitude”, namely its refusal to grant recognition to a regime emerged from a street putsch. The letter written by Andry Rajoelina is being announced as the way for a diplomatic body deliberately playing a deaf ear, to understand the incentives of the Malagasy people’s sacrifice for the sake of change. In clear words, the idea is to leave the Maputo agreements behind by insisting on a people’s sovereignty which decided to oust the president, well, a noble putsch. Will Andry’s letter make it?