Personality trumps principle in Madagascar.
Political parties in Madagascar are often empty shells, little more than ways to legitimise individual candidates with the illusion of a broader movement. Similarly, opposition parties here are usually façades with no ideology or platform. They tend to rush to the centre of state power like moths to a flame, quickly contradicting the notion that they are in opposition at all.
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