SADC led mission in Madagascar: the Rajoelina sphere in the sight

Andry Rajoelina and his allies, the eight groups which signed up to his roadmap in March 2011, met in Iavoloha. Following passionate talks between ESCOPOL members challenging each other for the group´s leadership, order was restored, and the meeting delivered small scale resolutions. “The 8 groupings agreed to sign the roadmap, in order  to prove to the world that we, Malagasy, do want to drive our country out of from the crisis “, argued Pety Rakotoniaina, from the Other Forces. “We decided to put committee in place, made of 3 members from each political entity, in order to meet the three spheres “, he added. 

This meeting of a new Rajoelina sphere reconnected by the Simao roadmap responded to Andry Rajoelina´s summoning to sign the roadmap with or without SADC and the international community. “There were discussions, some wanted to sign immediately “, told Alain Andriamiseza; although the SADC´s delegation´s arrival is not late compared to deadline imposed by the 6 entities´ republican pact. “We are determined to sign this roadmap “, he protested, while expecting this to happen on September 16th, 2011. 

 Pety Rakotoniaina is the one providing with more details concerning the relevance of the roadmap´s signing for the new Rajoelina sphere´s eight groups. The SPD of Fianarantsoa argues that the implementation of the document would be triggered by its signature. Some crucial decisions such as those concerning the electoral register, the amnesty, the elections´ date and the end of the transition, would be taken. 

The SADC´s delegation´s arrival is not enthusiastically taken by the TGV and the pro-Rajoelina supportive of the unilateral settlement. The failure to enforce municipal elections was hard enough to swallow for hard liners. The opportunity to make an electoral holdup and definitely cast the elected TIM party mayors and the Ravalomana sphere aside was missed. Andry Rajoelina dropped his basis down pushing for the signing of the amended roadmap and the formal acceptation of Marc Ravalomanana´s return home.

The Vital government´s faked TIM ministers emphasized however their will to sign the resolutions taken in Ivato, slightly altered by the meeting´s outcome dealt in Gaborone. The group paradoxically speaking in the name of someone they betrayed are arguably no more scared by his potential come back.

The SADC´s mission in Madagascar is expecting to erect permanent offices in Antananarivo, to follow the roadmap´s signing and is once again deemed to assess the political situation. No deadline for the signing has yet been made public. September 16th was merely ordered by the Rajoelina sphere on its own.

“Marc Ravalomanana´s come back is a matter of diplomatic statement” declared the transitional congressman Alain Tehindrazanarivelo. The HAT has been making no secret of its intention to trial the president it reversed in 2009, actually quite a good reason to sign the amended roadmap and let him return. The SADC´s incoming mission is therefore supposed to make sure that putsch makers clearly catch up that they would not be entitled to attack Ravalomanana, could they ever sign.