Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina appointed a soldier Prime Minister on Monday 6 October to try to extinguish a political crisis that lasts, especially on the street where his security forces even spread more than a thousand demonstrators in Antananarivo, causing at least one to be injured.
A week after the resignation of his government in an attempt to calm the dispute that this particularly poor island of the Indian Ocean ignored, the head of state that has been appointed as prime minister is a general of the army, largely unknown to the general public, Ruphin Fortunat Dimber Zafisambo.
The choice of this man, former General General of the Malagasy Basketball Federation, but especially director of the cabinet for his predecessor a few years ago, will it be enough to put an end to the sound of the deafening grenades and tear gas in Antanarivo?
Their explosions still resonated on Monday against two processions of hundreds of people in a capital of Malagasy still militarized, on the twelfth day of the protest movement that the country collapsed into an acute political crisis.
A challenge that does not weaken
The movement launched on 25 September changes the movement to the power and in particular the head of state, Andry Rajoelina, after he started as a fed up of the repeated cuts of water and electricity.
On the Red Cross radio, the “Romeo” -Code name announced in the afternoon. A young man in the twenties was injured by a projectile firing by the police, noted that the France (AFP) Agency was being admitted to the hospital.
The collective of the origin of the protest had called on Monday to new events with the University City of Ankatso, on the edge of the capital, as a starting point.
“The future of this country, it will depend on me, you, all of us”Harangue at the microphone one of the leaders of the movement.
“It is clear that democracy in Madagascar is not respected at all. Moreover, they destroy it brutally”accused another leader, in reference to the assessment of at least 22 dead and a hundred injured people announced by the UN last week, a balance that denied the Malagasy authorities.
Another rally was reported on Monday in the Big Southern City, Toleana, where demonstrators burned ties on the road, according to images broadcast by local media.
“Our enemy is not we”
The head of state, which multiplied meetings by trade union factors, the private sector and the administration on Saturday, assured Monday, “Drive a great lesson from what has happened lately” He “Better focus on population problems”.
During his speech almost half an hour on Monday, President, Andry Rajoelina, described his new prime minister as a man “Integrates, work quickly, have openness and listen”. “Our enemy we are not between Malagasy”he insisted. “Our enemy is poverty, corruption, abuse of power.” “ So many reproaches on the street.
The Christian Council of the Churches of Madagascar (FFKM) also said that it was ready on Friday to guarantee mediation between power and the protesters.
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