Madagascar: Voting Underway in First Presidential Poll Since 2009 Coup

Voting has started in the island nation of Madagascar to elect a president who will hopefully end a five-year crisis that has crippled the country's economy since President Andry Rajoelina seized power in a 2009 military-backed coup.

In all, about 7,697,382 registered voters in Madagascar will be voting across 20,001 polling stations across the country to select from among 33 contesting candidates which includes former Finance Minister Hery Martial Rakotoarimanana Rajaonarimampianina who is backed by Mr Rajoelina and Richard Jean-Louis Robinson who is standing for the Avana [Rainbow] party and is being backed by Mr Ravalomanana the country's exiled former president

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