Marc Ravalomanana proposing Manandafy Rakotonirina as transitional President

 
 
 
 
The political mobility leaders started the Addis Ababa meeting with a first shock. Negotiations resumed only very late in the night of November 03rd. Marc Ravalomanana walked out of from the meeting hall after the opening ceremony while requiring the presence of Joaquim Chissano, the SADC mediator.
 
The deadlock is already in sight. Marc Ravalomanana put a couple of names forth for the Transition’s Presidency: Manandafy Rakotonirina, his Prime Minister appointed in April, and Raymond Ranjeva, an acting jurist at the International Court of Den Haag, Netherlands, meant to be a neutral figure.
 
During his statement, the exiled President specified: “the Ravalomanana mobility is committed and entitled to claim the Transition’s Presidency for cause of being the lone having been granted any democratic legitimacy by the 2006 elections”
 
The tone is set by Marc Ravalomanana’s side. As far as it is concerned, Andry Rajoelina keeps holding on to his seat on top of the current transition. He does not intend to pull back at all, and desperately sticks to the mediators’ scheme drawn in Antananarivo on October 06th, at the end of a meeting described as “filled with irregularities” by the Ravalomanana mobility.