Maputo III: Hope and despair

The Maputo Summit, its third leg without Andry Rajoelina, delivered a governmental pattern. The Didier Ratsiraka, Albert Zafy and Marc Ravalomanana mobilities were able to complete the distribution of ministries within Transition’s next new government.  

For having made the trip, the Prime minister, Eugene Mangalaza, appeared optimistic. The erection of a government is to be completed very soon, as far as he is concerned. Maputo III’s pattern will be proposed by the Prime minister to the transitional president, Andry Rajoelina.   

The first try has yet been refused by Rajoelina. The latest could not agree on leaving such a large number of “strategic” ministries slip out of his hands to the other political mobilities. By accepting the distribution diagram between four political mobilities in a national unity government, all concerned parties had thought to have made their share of concessions.  

The mobility Andry Rajoelina claims to have done the most by conceding power sharing. The mobility Marc Ravalomanana claims just the same, on the other hand, by conceding the title of transitional president to the author of the Coup.  

The third leg of the Maputo summit is, somehow, still a cause for hope for some people. The national unity government is to be expected soon. For some others, Maputo III is only one more step toward a bottleneck, because the so much expected compromise is simply impossible. The communiqué published by the transitional presidency following the three mobilities’ proposal was crystal clear. Andry Rajoelina considers the new government erected in Maputo like a “provocation”. 

The evolution of the political situation after this third round of mobility leaders in Maputo is suspended to the attitude of Rajoelina and his collaborators. In between, the outgoing ministers are keeping on acting as they always used to. The young maker’s supporters are already pushing him to hit the road without the other mobilities. Their goal is, first and foremost, the acceleration of the run to the fourth Republic. The whole international community is yet waving sanctions if the national unity fails to be put in place within the next few days.  

Until then, the new Prime minister, Eugene Mangalaza, is reflecting genuine complete isolation; the outgoing ministers ignored by the government’s new chief, are currently proudly show off by Rajoelina’s sides whenever possible