The potential candidates for the next presidential election are preparing even if no declaration of candidacies has been officially announced. After Marc Ravalomanana’s trip to Toliara, Siteny Randrianasoloniako, current president of the African Judo Confederation in Africa and elected deputy from Madagascar in the South, is in turn embarking on a veritable pre-electoral campaign. He plans to crisscross the country and meet the population, in a tour he calls “Mihava Tour, Mihaino anareo Vahoaka. Before he left, he returned to his hometown in Anantsono to ask for his family’s blessing.
Considered as one of the potential candidates for the future race for the supreme magistracy, Siteny Randrianasoloniako is following in the footsteps of Marc Ravalomanana. The former President of the Republic, ousted from power by Andry Rajoelina in 2009, is preparing to regain power.
The outgoing president, Andry Rajoelina, will no doubt stand for his own succession. A few months before the end of his mandate, he continues to make promises of actions to be undertaken or continued even if his results so far remain very mixed. It is its activists, grouped within the various associations and political platforms that are preparing the ground. They have multiplied meetings and statements in the media lately. We should in any case by then expect inauguration ceremonies, official launch of works, delivery of donations and others which, as usual, tend to multiply at the end of the term of office. ‘a president.
Former President Hery Rajaonarimampianina is also said to be approached by members of his HVM party to run for the supreme office. For now, this former head of state is abroad and does not seem to be in a hurry to return home. However, rumors of an alliance between the latter and Marc Ravalomanana have been circulating in recent weeks.
