Unilateral signing of the roadmap:

What is the HAT expecting by signing something without the international institutions´ monitoring? Any maneuver defying and ruling the international community out is actually no deemed to enforce its recognition. Andry Rajoelina reacted following the SADC´s rejection of his ultimatum. No signing consequently came true.

The imposed authority´s leader had to wave goodbye to the opportunity of organizing communal elections in 2011, as a consequence, let alone national elections in 2012. The electoral process is supposed to be triggered by the signing of a roadmap, so far that the so named elections are expected to get international legitimacy. The call to voters had to be launched before August 31th in order to get results this year. The call upon a signing is, on this account, looking like a desperate one. It would have had at least triggered a reaction from the SADC.

“Many of you are impatiently expecting my decision as transitional president, as a response to the deadline which was not met by the SADC, and the lack of signing date” declared Andry Rajoelina on August 31st. “As political figures are holding on to the roadmap they signed, me, myself and I, and the transitional power decided, for the sake of peace, appeasement and the nation´s supreme interest, to push for the home signing of the roadmap amended by the SADC´s executive secretary. My patience has limits, and the Malagsy nation has, besides, its sovereignty” argued the dictatorship´s leader whereas his sphere is the one straining to evade its responsibilities by opposing the return of the president it reversed in the run of a putsch in 2009.

“I am consequently calling upon each and every political force to comply, so that this signing comes into force as early as possible”, he concluded. Rajoelina is seemingly expecting support from the opposition´s three spheres, quite an unlikely thing, assuming that they always kept away from unilateral moves opposing the SADC and the international community´s will.

“The implementation of the amended roadmap will be the next step, following the signing. And then, the next issue will be elections, an issue to be addressed by those who signed” declared Rajoelina thereafter. Does he really stand by the opposition?

In order to skirt around his responsibility and divert his supporters´ deception, for expecting the enforcement of elections in 2011, Rajoelina pretended to have complied with a decision taken by a dim Transitional power: “We jointly addressed the issue and came up to this decision as a result deemed to lead to a long term solution”. As a matter of fact, this U-turn came true shortly after unnoticed meetings between the HAT´s top figure and a certain envoy of the exiled president Marc Ravalomanana