Tag: Andry Rajoelina

  • Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina re-elected amid boycott

    Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina re-elected amid boycott

    Madagascar’s occupant President Andry Rajoelina has won a third term, following a contested political race boycotted by the resistance and its allies.

    He won 59% of the vote to overcome his two nearest matches, removed ex-President Marc Ravalomanana and Siteny Randriana Soloniaiko.

    The political race recorded a citizen turnout of 46%, viewed as the most reduced in the island nation’s set of experiences.

    The low turnout followed calls for survey blacklist by 10 official competitors.

    They likewise pulled out their nominations over worries about the believability of the political decision and impugned President Rajoelina’s offered for a third term and the legitimacy of his bid, given his double French ethnicity.

    The sacred court excused their requests to dissolve Mr Rajoelina’s office. He likewise excused the allegations and called them a political strategy.

    Regardless of their withdrawal, the up-and-comers’ names remained on the voting form. Mr Randriana Soloniaiko acquired 14% of the vote and Mr Ravalomanana 12%.

    The established court has nine days to affirm the outcomes reported on Saturday by Madagascar’s constituent body, Ceni.

    The resistance aggregate that boycotted the political decision has proactively proclaimed that it won’t perceive the aftereffects of the 16 November survey.

    There were a month and a half of exhibitions and conflicts with police in the development to the political race, provoking the burden of a check in time in Antananarivo just before the survey.

    Mr Rajoelina, 49-year-old business visionary and previous DJ, won an official run-off vote against Mr Ravalomanana in 2018, after neither of them got over half of the vote as expected to be proclaimed president in the main round.

    He had removed Mr Ravalomanana in a 2009 upset that was upheld by the military.

    He faces the extreme errand of making position and working on the economy, in a nation where 75% of individuals reside underneath the neediness line, as per the World Bank.

    He is likewise expected to carry political security to a country that has been shaken by long periods of political choppiness.

  • Malagasy leader to run for re-election despite citizenship dispute

    Malagasy leader to run for re-election despite citizenship dispute

    Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said he plans to run for president again in November. Some people are trying to stop him from participating in the election, but he will still go ahead with his campaign.

    In June of this year, secret documents showed that Mr. Rajoelina, his wife, and children became French citizens in 2014.

    After the news came out, some leaders and people from Madagascar started doubting his honesty and loyalty to their country. Madagascar used to be a French colony until 1960.

    Critics also say that in this country, having citizenship in two countries is not allowed. If someone gets citizenship in another country, they lose their citizenship in this country and cannot run for president.

    However Mr Rajoelina, who became the president after winning the election in late 2018, disagrees with this and says that the constitution does not prevent people with dual citizenship from running for presidency.

    Over 20 people are participating in the elections that will take place on November 9th on an island in the Indian Ocean.