Cape Town — The deposed president of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, has visited two Southern African capitals in his bid to be restored to power.
He said in a statement issued on Wednesday that he had visited President Ian Khama of Botswana and President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa in Gaborone and Pretoria respectively on Tuesday. Ravalomanana announced last week that he planned to return home soon, and promised this week to form an “inclusive government.”
But in his Wednesday statement, he rejected power-sharing with Andry Rajoelina, the leader who ousted him and formed a High Transition Authority.
“They broke the law and carried out a coup d’état that was condemned by the entire international community,” Ravalomanana said.
The courts would have to rule on the legality of Rajoelina's actions, he added. “That is not my job but I will support the decision of an independent judiciary once the rule of law is restored.”
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Indeed Ravalomanana is expected to firm up in Madagascar to address the acts he committed during the 7 years of power. It should be noted that having resigned, he has no authority to organize any election he has already proved its worth in the organization of election cheating, corruption, manipulation of results (failure computer to collect meaningful ministry results of the last presidential election, he received 41% the day before the crash, the return to normal, it jumped to 53% and is elected by magic in the first round! I do not see how the SADC and AU have already excluded Madagascar may come in the country to implement that which has been vomited by the people ... Is there an act of aggression against the country? Are there was a genocide? A conflict between two armed internal factions is taking place? So the intervention of SADC and the AU is not justified! Indeed it would be an aggression. The Malagasy Penal Code contains provisions relating to interest treason and violations of external security of the State. Thus, Article 75 provides, inter alia, that 'shall be guilty of treason and punishable by death ... Malagasy maintain that any intelligence with a foreign power, to commit to undertake hostilities against Madagascar, where it will provide the means, either by facilitating the penetration of foreign forces on the territory of Madagascar, or by undermining the loyalty of Armed!
Ravalomanana is finite and belongs to the past: it is the logical end of a man who had erected in the form of government except, arbitrary arrests, the confusion between state interests and those of his own company Tikoland. It is a general fed up, exacerbated by increasing poverty and abuses of Human Rights, who spoke. On this wave of discontent, Andry Rajoelina played, as mayor of the capital, as a trigger to mobilize the population. Ironically, it is the street, which brought Ravalomanana to power in 2002, who has hunted. He paid to have created a dangerous precedent
I can ensure you that Andry Rajoelina committed much mistakes within the last 3 months than Ravalomanana during the past 7 years. So the Malagsy encountered much difficulty the first trimester of 2009 than during Ravalomanana mandatory. Regarding the election cheating, the International Community recognized that last presidential election was the most transparent since our independence. Anyway their experts assisted it from the beginning.
You who strive for Ravalomanana's failure to come back in power, try to justify Andry Rajoelina's acts instead his methods and his behavior toward the constitution and the Malagasy law. Try to state something good in his regard if you can.
Agreed wholeheartedly. Just because someone is not a good leader does not mean that the Constitution should be trounced. Rojoelina, was put in unconstiutionally through a coup and this should not be rewarded by SADC or any other international body.
This must be a joke! lol
How in hell can Ravalomanana 'share power' he does not possess? Such arrogance!
The primary role of a good leader is the well being of his people.
Ravalomanana has ALWAYS been about himself!
Only those who are of the nation in question know who is good or bad. However, no one must be allowed to grab the military and remove an elected leader. What does that say about elections if those who have guns can do wahtever, whenever?
Again, this form of forming/removing governments in Africa is the cancer we all must fight. Forget sharing power, this new dude must be removed by the same hands that installed him. Another coup is in order.
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