Maputo II: Two days to designate the main chiefs of the Transition

There are 457 seats to share. A couple of days are probably not going to be enough for the Andry Rajoelina, Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy political mobilities to find the appropriate names to associate to them within the new Transition. 

However, the main chiefs of the Transition should normally be known by the end of the second meeting in Maputo.  

The Maputo summit is this time basically being programmed over two days, on August 25th and 26th. Depending on the mediators, the meeting might well last longer than planned, just as the first summit between the four leaders did. 

According to Madagascan reporters on the ground, seven persons can follow each of the four mobility chiefs inside the meeting room.  

86 people in all have made the trip from Madagascar to Maputo to attend this second summit. The delegation driven by Andry Rajoelina is made of about thirty individuals. Some new figures are being noticed within the Marc Ravalomanana and the Rajoelina mobilities.  

For the pro-Ravalomanana delegation, the team has been completed by political prisoners who have, in accordance with the agreements of Maputo I, just been released from prison, namely Manandafy Rakotonirina, Ihanta Randriamandranto and Raharinaivo Andrianantoandro.  

As for the Andry Rajoelina mobility, Prime minister Monja Roindefo is part of the delegation. This mobility’s main creed is to defend the “gains” from the street protests that drove Marc Ravalomanana into exile, that is to say Andry Rajoelina as Transition’s president, and Monja Roindefo as his Prime minister.  

The other mobilities don’t think it that way. Didier Ratsiraka was keen on specifying that

“Nothing has been decided yet”, whereas Fetison Andrianirina from the Ravalomanana mobility is persuaded that a president and a government’s chief being part of the same mobility is an unconceivable script.