UDR vs CHALLENGE: the two contradictory alliances known TGV

In response to the of the Telecommunication and New technologies minister’s “unilateral” initiative, the chairwoman of the TGV political association and newly reconverted political party, is making a move on with genuine political allies. Augustin Andrimanananoro set himself free from the party’s leading structure, and presented his CHALLENGE, a platform uniting politicians and associations from the Rajoelina mobility’s wing rather inclined to make national unity oriented efforts for the revision of the nation. 

Tthis first alliance’s incentive is openly linked to elections. “We are not certain that the TGV will get the majority “, declared minister Augustin Andriamananoro, justifying the need of alliances. The meeting held in Mahamasina consequently was a sort of pre-convention prior to the official designation of the TGV mobility’s candidates sailing under the colors of the CHALLENGE platform. But it is not to the liking of Andry Rajoelina’s leading devoted disciples.  

“The TGV did not officially take part into this meeting; some of its members have been personally invited”, argued the party’s top. The government’s member is even being blamed for making moves serving his personal ambitions. The birth of an abnormal alliance aiming at avoiding the consultation of the basis is being feared. On the other hand, the TGV cannot afford to face up to its self making elections on its own. Alliance as a concept was already on schedule, but Chairwoman Lanto Rakotomavo has been left in the starting blocks by her vice-presidents.  

Union of Democrats and Republicans (UDR) is the name of the new political alliance shaped up by the TGV. According to Lanto Rakotomavo, “the platform has a long history; everything was triggered by the struggle for change”. She pledges no recognition to CHALLENGE, but does not want clash either. “What are the ideas brought by these different platforms to the country?”, wondered the chairwoman of the TGV. As far as she is concerned, her party has a strong structure and “transmits the ideology preached by its founding president, Andry Rajoelina, for the sake of change “.  

Lanto Rakotomavo is strving to redirect the TGV on its electoral strategy’s railways. There is an agreement about change as well as for the designation of candidates to elections”, she said. Choices will have to be done within the basis or the platform’s leading figures”. Is the concerned alliance exclusively the UDR? Any union is rather unthinkable between the UDR and CHALLENGE. The meeting actually united all sorts of political or moral figures bound to follow the TGV even it crashes, instead of party leaders all alone.  

The TGV’s chairwoman and her siblings required the basis to be given the right and responsability to choose the party’s candidates. They denounced minister Augustin Andriamananoro’s led boost to nepotism as well as his attempt to put candidates from outside the party through. The UDR might not be that so different. The TGV is not leader in this union. As an evidence of it, Lahiniriko Jean is actually its president. The national assembly’s former president and first runner up in the latest presidential elections drew the largest available calibres to eject Lanto Rakotomavo form the front stage. Such an union is likely to burst when the race to the presidency will be on, unless Lahiniriko Jean is eager to restrict his ambitions to the recovery of his perch in Tsimbazaza.