Rajoelina mobility: media Coup against both of the Transition’s Co presidents

The controversy about the Addis Ababa Additional Act is still on top of the headlines even though contradictions are only politically and press related. On can still blame the French language recession in Madagascar as an excuse for the misunderstanding. The truth is that the Act signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is purposely confusing. And the more precisions are brought, the more confusing it turns into. In the article 1, “Is being instituted a Presidential Council composed of two Co Presidents of the Transition”, it is the failure exploited by Rajoelina and his mobility. 

The interpretation is bold. This line would mean that Fetison Andrianirina and Emmanuel Rakotovahiny are mere advisors of the transitional president. At best, both of these figures from the Ravalomanana and Zafy mobilities are only two co-presidents in the Presidential Council. In this latest case, it would suppose that further more presidential advisors should be appointed in the Council, which happens to be impossible for Andry Rajoelina since the so named Council only has a couple of seats whose holders have the title of Transition’s Co presidents. The joint presidency idea is definitely hard to swallow by the Rajoelina mobility. 

Fetison Andrianirina has yet admitted that Andry Rajoelina is the president of the Transition. He is, for sure, light years away from recognizing any almighty presidential statute to the mayor of Antananarivo who put a grip on power in March 2009. According to the top header of the Ravalomanana delegation during the mediation process, the title of Transition’s President is, first and foremost,… merely a title. No one is going to make a scandal of Andry Rajoelina receiving on his own who knows whose ambassador’s credence letter. The diplomat in question has, besides, put an end to the political nudge of his hurried gesture by paying a visit to both of the Transition’s Co presidents. 

According to the Malagasy transitional Charter’s Addis Ababa Additional Act, power sharing can be taken for granted on top of the executive machine. So is the consensus conceded by Marc Ravalomanana, unwilling to have a putsch maker on top of the Transition, and by Andry Rajoelina, forced to wave farewell to a share of his gains. Did young TGV know that he was losing in Addis Ababa? He visibly did not catch a thing of an apparently simple equation: two Co Presidents ruling the Transition means 33% of power left for him, the end. 

Andry Rajoelina has been thinking from scratch that Vice Presidents and Co Presidents were similar. He put his foot deeper in it when he thanked the Zafy mobility for leaving the vice-presidency for the Co Presidency. Emmanuel Rakotovahiny did not ask that much. And the young president is pretending to catch up on his blunders by affirming that those supposed to share power would be ranked as mere ministers attending the Cabinet meetings. 

Fetison Andrianirina has spoken; Co Presidents and President are standing on the same equal footing; and Andry Rajoelina is not entitled to produce any veto. In clear, big decisions on top of the State are assessed, taken and signed by all the three of them. Three signatures on the resolutions agreed and to be implemented in Cabinet meeting will be the demonstration of the effectiveness of power sharing. The Rajoeilna mobility tries to cheer itself up by stating that all decisions will not stem from presidential council or from Cabinet meeting. In a transitional situation managed by a national unity government, it looks like once more as a stab in the back, or as more usually, a Coup .