Friday , 29 March 2024
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The private sector presented a re-launch plan for economy to Eugene Mangalaza, Transition's Prime Minister. Corporations' CEOs and trade unions' leaders confirmed their will to play a "political role" in the future Economic and Social Council.

Private sector: ready for the re-launch plan and for the Economic Council

The re-launch plan presented by the private sector to Prime Minister Mangalaza is targeting three important sectors: tourism, the industry and modern technologies. The government’s chief pledged to consult the private sector for the completion of the year 2010’s State budget. A meeting between groupings, corporations’ trade unions and Finance Ministry technicians is being planned. The private sector naturally invites politicians to come to an agreement in order to settle political disputes which dreadfully hamper the investment process.  

 

As the civil society is hesitating to get involved in one of the Transition’s institutions, the private sector appears more determined. “We must work together during this transition… security and confidence are paramount”, declared Freddy Rajaonera, Vice-president of Madagascar’s Union of Industries, at the end of the meeting between members of the private sector and the government’s chief.  

 

Georges Raveloson, Vice president of the FIVMPAMA, attested that the different groupings are bound to speak out in the name of the production sector and trade unions in this transitional regime. He does not want everybody to be labelled as civil society members. “the very identification of the civil society has to be redefined since some of its current members are also implied in politics”, he has explained. “The private sector is inescapable concerning economic and social questions”, argued the vice-president of the FIVMPAMA. “We have our own relevance and, therefore, deserve to be part of the Economic and Social Council “.