The ICG’s point: Elections will have to take place before the end of 2013

As an outcome of their latest relatively short mission in Antananarivo, the envoys sent by the SADC and the African Union emphasized the need to cast presidential elections before the end of the year, following an as so relevant need to review the starting line’s composition. Joachim Chissano expects the new Special Electoral Court to rebuke the three candidates rejected by one part of the International Community, namely Lalao Ravalomanana, Andry Rajoelina and Didier Ratsiraka, as well as all the other candidates eventually longing for pulling out of the presidential race. The new Special Electoral Court has now the floor. Any alteration to the former Special Electoral Court’s decisions happens to be actively debatted by law experts from each and every political tier, as a matter of fact