Marc Ravalomanana wants to deprive putsch makers from power

In clear words, it means neither Andry Rajoelina, nor Monja Roindefo on top of the state, unless by electoral endorsement. So reads the summary of Marc Ravalomanana’s current stand. This categorical refusal must be paving the way to a new Transition, a genuinely “neutral” one this time around, as stipulated by the political agreement in the Transition’s charter signed in Maputo on the latest August 9th. 

In a recent declaration, Marc Ravalomanana was clear: “Today, we all, Malagasy citizens and members of the ICG, have the duty to oppose any attempt to maintain either Rajoelina or Monja Roindefo on top of the country, even during the transition, as long as they are not democratically elected. Madagascar has enough of elite and honest patriots to understand and do that.” 

This stand should be putting an end on a wrong debate about the will to eject Monja Roindefo from his Prime Minister’s seat. The exiled president’s requirement does not only consist in replacing the current Prime Minister with another one from the other mobilities, but also in definitely forcing putsch makers, either Monja Roindefo of Andry Rajoelina, to step down and give way to figures which did not take part into any Coup. 

Each and everyone’s stands are announcing a more than complicated path to a possible common ground between the actors of the Malagasy crisis. The presence of special envoys from permanent country members of the United Nations’ Security Council might just not be enough to get a breakthrough.