Local early elections: no legal foundation

The transitional upper authority is definitely the unilaterally erected electoral Commission’s boss. Without surprise, the CENI welcomed and tackled the capitalization of the Cabinet meeting’s decision to announce that local anticipated elections would be taking place on December 20th, 2010 and that voters are immediately called upon obliging. The CENI sacrificed its credibility when not opposing a political plot that violating the electoral law, namely the ban on voting processes carried on  during the rainy season.  
 
The CENI is therefore pledging inclination to the authority which, in the end, erected it in order to satisfy its supporters, an inclination based on the political situation’s emergency estate. The HAT and the CENI are definitely so much in a hurry that they are compelled to violate their own electoral law. The ruling authority used to argue that the organization of a votin g process during the rainy season was easing electoral frauds. December 20th, 2010 as an electoral date is therefore simply illegal.  
 
The three mobilities criticized the blunder. The former TIM party deputy Zafilahy deplores the lack of legal basis for these local early elections. The constitutional referendum will definitely take place in November. It means that voters can expect to be officially called upon voting after the new Constitution’s enactement. The HAT would thereupon have to organize the election before March 01st, 2011, 90 days after a convocation that can legally be issued on December 01st, 2010. The rainy season only ends after April 15th 2011.  
 
But Andry Rajoelina cannot afford to lose time anymore. He is committed to direct the transition at the latest until March 2011, and even expects to put institutions in place before the end of 2010. That was basically logical since the first rainy quarter of the year was undue for voting processes. The authority’s leader is however not allowed to do anything his way for being compelled to capitalize his supporters’ will expressed at the time of the national conference.  
 
Of course, this “illegal” decision was not exclusively that of Andry Rajoelina. He argued that he had consulted the Raimandreny Mijoro and various politicians. In order satisfy the TGV supportive panel dying for the elected mayors’ positions, he decided to break his own rules of engagements, namely the electoral law as well as these elected officials’ legal mandates. As far as Hery Raharisaina from the Ravalomanana mobility is concerned, this hazardous election is a flagrant violation of the people’s choice having  endowed mayors with a legal mandate. The eviction of the mayors is being expected to ruin the TIM party’s influence on the incoming elections.