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MADAGASCAR: Red Admiral Returns

MADAGASCAR: Red Admiral Returns Candidates for the July poll emerge. Former president Didier Ratsiraka returned home from France on April 18th, ending an 11‐year exile that followed a bitter election dispute. The 76‐year‐old is taking part in a national reconciliation conference ahead of polls set for July that aim to break the island's long‐running political crisis. “Everything must be discussed, everything can be discussed, without taboo,” he told AFP in an interview, saying this included postponement of the election. “We must put an end to this vicious cycle, and this crisis that has lasted too long, in which the people are the first victims, must end in one way or another,” he said. He did not say if he would be a candidate in the polls due on July 24th. The conference is being organised by the Ecumenical Council of the Christian churches of Madagascar to boost efforts to end the four‐year deadlock on the island. Ratsiraka was president from 1975 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2002, when he fled to France following a post‐election dispute which sparked violence and chaos when he refused to concede defeat to Marc Ravalomanana. The impasse split the vast island nation in two – http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2013
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2013.05050.x
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Abstract

Candidates for the July poll emerge. Former president Didier Ratsiraka returned home from France on April 18th, ending an 11‐year exile that followed a bitter election dispute. The 76‐year‐old is taking part in a national reconciliation conference ahead of polls set for July that aim to break the island's long‐running political crisis. “Everything must be discussed, everything can be discussed, without taboo,” he told AFP in an interview, saying this included postponement of the election. “We must put an end to this vicious cycle, and this crisis that has lasted too long, in which the people are the first victims, must end in one way or another,” he said. He did not say if he would be a candidate in the polls due on July 24th. The conference is being organised by the Ecumenical Council of the Christian churches of Madagascar to boost efforts to end the four‐year deadlock on the island. Ratsiraka was president from 1975 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2002, when he fled to France following a post‐election dispute which sparked violence and chaos when he refused to concede defeat to Marc Ravalomanana. The impasse split the vast island nation in two –

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: May 1, 2013

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