Most of those who attended the national day’s official events are supporters of the HAT. Campaigns would have failed to alter much of the situation. The opposition’s supporters carefully avoided June 26th ‘s officially organized events. Since several days, the capital city streets have been putting up a party face.
As some are enjoying some “national pride” from the isle’s independence’s 50th anniversary, many more others are noticing the result: traffic jam, dozens more tons of trash littering the streets after fairs, not to mention the long lasting hangover stemming from a poorly managed Coup. Having a putsch maker being entitled to lead Madagascar’s 50th independence birthday is a tragedy for these people. The former ones are, however, holding Marc Ravalomanana’s departure before this milestone date as a blessing.
The celebration is no fun for everybody, far from that. So it is for some ones, but a lot more other ones are keeping their despair and even their grown silent. These ones are holding this day as that of the HAT, not as theirs