Prime Minister nominee: Hery Rajaonarimampianina hinted Kolo Roger’s appointment

“After due consideration, following the consultation of every political group actively contributing to the nation’s political life, I hereby appoint Roger Kolo as Prime Minister to the 4th Republic”… No, Hery Rajaonarimampianina did not utter any of this sentence’s words packed together this way. He started his speech with a long recall of his promises to spur economic recovery on, deemed to get built on national reconciliation and a fair distribution pattern for national wealth. The Republic’s presidency’ secretary general briefly skimmed through a name sounding like Kolo Christophe Laurent Roger as that of the Prime Minister, when reading the presidential decree out.
“Scores of competent political figures have been put by leading parliamentarian party deputies forth” commented President Hery Rajaonarimampianina when straining to present his Prime Minister as the leading majority’s choice. He introduced the nominee as someone he may rely on, potentially capable of helping him unfold options for the sake of developing the country, reliable when it comes to commanding a whole of a government. Though carefully keeping away from openly saying his name loud, the President does not save on blandishments for his Prime Minister. The MAPAR group supportive of Andry Rajoelina still claiming relative majority at the Parliament only had its eyes left to shed tears on this lost day.
“In quality of President of the Republic, I took the Constitution’s article 54’s content into consideration within the context of national reconciliation and common interest”, so sounded the ground to the rejection of the MAPAR’s parliamentarian majority claim. Neither the fragile alliance sealed between the openly Rajoelina supportive deputies and the GPS group’s independent ones availed. The President did not provide any further detail about the majority which backed Kolo Roger. 93 deputies would be part of its composition, including some MAPAR group renegades. The President emphasized the fact that Madagascar is “in need of a stable government accurately reflecting the capitalization of national reconciliation through its inclusiveness.” At any rate, Hery Rajaonarimampianina confirmed that every single condition to the appointment of his Prime Minister had been fulfilled, and concluded as follows: “We are looking forward to turning the page and getting a move toward the future on.”
Kolo Roger is a practitioner specialized in radiology, previously serving in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013 he lined up as an independent candidate without political party behind him to run the presidential race. The Special Electoral Court rejected his candidacy though. So he teamed up with Jules Etienne, another equally rejected candidate, and introduced together the acting transitional finance minister as replacement candidate. Still, the MAPAR keeps claiming full credit for Hery Rajaonarimampianina’ successful rise to power. The disqualification of Andry Rajoelina due to his involvement in the year 2009’s political putsch, then the rejection of his puppet Haja Resampa, actually proved hard to swallow at a time, did they not? In February already, Kolo Roger was conditionally tolerated by the MAPAR group in exchange of a grip over every major ministry to be granted to Andry Rajoelina. The odds have been turning ever since though. Now, President Hery Rajaonarimampianina tells to be hoping for the MAPAR’s willingness to line up with the presidential majority to materialize. The incoming constitution of the government will tell how tense the situation has actually come to be.