What on earth is the Ravalomanana sphere doing?

Yet, the Ravalomanana sphere has actually no candidate running the presidential elections in 2013. There are no more doubts about it. Lalao Ravalomanana was proposed as replacement candidate for her own self, then turned away again by the Special Electoral Court. Mamy Rakotoarivelo lost his bet.

The political sphere dared the odds, for having strongly challenged the first and late Special Electoral Court’s acceptation of Andry Rajoelina’s application, which was actually overdue, according to this very same Electoral Court’s legal standards.

Accepting Lalao Ravalomanana as replacement candidate would eventually have been perceived as the new Special Electoral Court’s way to redeem its reputation as well as the ruling power’s politically motivated failure to let the wife of the President ousted by the putsch back in 2009 freely recover home soil in time.

The political sphere unfortunately ran out of time to react to the rejection of its replacement candidate accordingly. The three days had come to an end when the Special Electoral Court announced its decision to reject  the candidacy of a certain Lalao Rakotonirainy – her maiden name.

In this latest attempt to put a candidacy through, Mamy Rakotoarivelo had played his last card up his sleeve. And it did not work. The Special Electoral Court is definitely not bound to dare restoring the Ravalomanana sphere into the presidential race, at the expense of what is left of its credit.

Accepting an overdue application once again would have in these conditions required at the least an order from the ruling power’s highest levels. Let such a favor not be expected from the ruling power’s leader. No one alive fears a fair challenge with the Ravalomanana sphere more than he. The ousted president’s supporters have to rely on an eventual intervention from the SADC and the AU, yet without any prospect of success no more. Besides, the electoral process newly tackled by the Electoral Commission (CENIT) has reached a decisive milestone, and may not be delayed any longer. The ballot will have 33 names and not any single additional one.

For having crept Lalao Rakotonirainy’s candidacy at the eleventh hour in, Mamy Rakotoarivelo was at a time suspected of longing for turning into his own sphere’s candidate. He bluntly denied this, and declared that his action was fully agreed by Marc Ravalomanana, the exiled president himself. Pierrot Botozaza or Eliane Naika could have made fair candidates for the sphere, although rumors were putting Tojo Ravalomanana in the best position to take over his mother. Now the Ravalomanana political sphere has naught but two options left: backing one candidate out of the 33 available ones, or boycotting the elections