Political mobility leaders’ summit: Delegations taking off for Addis-Ababa

They were not very loquacious. The different delegations’ envoys, all meant to be taking part into the political mobilities’ summit in Addis-Ababa Ethiopia from November 3rd to the 5th, have all refrained from many comments as getting on board of the plane chartered by the African Union, on November 2nd. 

The scraps of conversation with journalists in the airport at the time of the departure, anyhow reflected the lasting stand opposition, namely between the mobility of the President in exile, Marc Ravalomanana, and that of the putsch maker Andry Rajoelina.    

It is a new opportunity to find a happy end for the Malagasy political crisis. The four political mobilities are going to try to define a power sharing scheme for the new Transition to the fourth Republic one more time again.  

The Addis-Ababa summit will probably be the last opportunity for Marc Ravalomanana, Andry Rajoelina, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy to find a common ground about the Transition’s key seats. The assignment of the Transition’s Presidency is, so far, remaining the main stumbling block between Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina. The latter believes to be entitled to remain in charge, while the ousted President estimates that the recognition of a “putsch maker” should never come true. 

Andry Rajoelina is convinced that the international mediators’ initiatives taken on latest October 6th, in Antananarivo, can no more be altered. However,  Mamy Rakotoarivelo, from the Ravalomanana mobility, believes that the forthcoming summit is the occasion to start everything all over again, naturally still on the basis of agreements already signed in Maputo by the beginning of August.