National conference : two civil societies

One of the civil society’s fringes led by Lalao Randriamampionona and Serge Zafimahova would have fancied the national conference’s postponement for the sake of convincing the largest possible number of political parties, but it wasn’t to everyone’s liking.

Both of these likely conferences are on their way to be everything but “national”, for being unable to gather any of the crisis’ main actors around the same negotiation table.

None of the three political spheres’ leaders loyal to the Maputo agreements (Didier Ratsiraka, Albert Zafy and Marc Ravalomanana) are intending to take part into September 13th’s national conference. Their conditions were closely intertwined with political lull, deviation according to the High Authority’s supporters.

The political stumbling block is still a reality. The High Authority of Transition and its supporters are technically holding the contribution from some 100 political parties, part of which one of the Ravalomanana sphere’s newly born fringe, as enough to tackle a way to end the crisis.