Marc Ravalomanana agrees an amendment to the implementation of the roadmap

What will these amendments all about? Discussions are on their way forward and Marc Ravalomanana has chosen not to address details yet. But he said that changes would be coming true. “you, members of government, will have to implement this amended roadmap and nothing else,” he said. He also urged SADC to put pressure so that this new document gets implemented the right way.

In the run of his meeting with Andry Rajoelina in the Seychelles, Marc Ravalomanana addressed alterations deemed to affect the roadmap. “We agreed on the fact that the roadmap was actually not the best possible agreement, and that incoming improvements will focus on critical issues”. The exiled president “has repeatedly made objections on several points concerning  the way the roadmap is supposed to be implemented” confirmed the SADC.

A roadmap violated by the transitional ruling power

The Ravalomanana sphere has loudly been denouncing Andry Rajoelina’s opened despise for the national unity prime minister and his authority, and regretted that foreign countries were allowed to interfere with the composition of the government. It also denounced the “violations or rather thorough lack of will to comply with some of the roadmap’s articles, and respect either inclusiveness or fair power sharing principles.”

“The implementation of the roadmap in perfect harmony with its basic essence happens to be the secret of a successful transition; as long as roadmap and especially true national unity remain ignored and considered by the transitional power as obstacles to its unilateral rule, whatever transitional institution will remain deprived of legitimacy” declared the Ravalomanana sphere.

Such a point does actually not only belong to the Ravalomanana sphere, but reflects the stand shared by a large part of the international community and especially by the United States’. “Madagascar’s membership in the African Union and the SADC remains suspended only due to the lack of progress in the implementation of the roadmap”.

Unconditional recovery of home soil

President Ravalomanana made it however clear to the SADC that the settlement of the political crisis could not possibly be figured out without his comeback home. He recalled that the improvement of both security and political situation was the condition to this “unconditional” recovery of home soil, as amended in the run of the SADC’s summit held in Sandton.

“In other words, factors such as amnesty, security issues, arrest warrant or court decisions against me, can possibly not prevent my return home, just as they did not prevent President Ratsiraka from coming back home, “he added.

“The transitional authorities are therefore summoned to remove whatever barrier they have erected against my return” read a statement produced by President Ravalomanana, without any revelations of what could have happened in the Seychelles. For the time being, the HAT has been clearly displaying his will to do whatever it would take to prevent, or at least delay president Ravalomanana’s return home