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Marc Ravalomanana’s supporters did apparently not lose any drop of motivation and even remain optimistic, four years after their president’s fall from power. The Magro square may welcome a few hundreds of militants on a daily basis, but when need be, several dozens of thousands are bound to stand tall together at once, a matter of fact happening to hint a far higher number of unrecorded cases. The transitional leadership dreads the way such an underground power would unleash, could the former president ever recover the island from his south African land of exile. There are reasons for that. Precisely this return, pledged by the Crisis Settlement Roadmap signed back in September 2011, is being emphatically required by Marc Ravalomanana’s supporters. The Roadmap actually pledges an unconditional right to return to each and every political figure kept out in exile on political account. So, the transitional ruling power can nothing but straining to buy time
It was an opportunity for the former president’s supporters to flex muscles once again. Several thousands of supporters of Marc Ravalomanana gathered in the run of a picnic in Amboanjobe, in the southern outskirts of Antanananarivo city, and shared new year wishes to each other. The former president was present, though merely through a phone line call from his land of exile, and declared that he would be on the verge of coming back home, and that no decision concerning the election would come out until this comeback to Madagascar comes true.