Andry Nirina Rajoelina (Andry TGV)

The tense relationship between the two parties was further strained in July when authorities searched the company's offices as part of investigations into an apparent coup attempt against President Andry Rajoelina...

This will not have been good news for the marketers of President Andry Rajoelina's favoured Covid-Organics herbal remedy that he had been heralding as the cure for coronavirus...

The second round of the Madagascar presidential election on 19 December promises to be a hard fight between two sworn enemies: Marc Ravalomanana who led the country from 2002-09 and Andry Rajoelina the man who deposed him in a coup...

Only three stand a serious chance of election all of whom have previously held the country's highest office: Hery Rajaonarimampianina the incumbent; Marc Ravalomanana president from 2002 until a coup in 2009; and Andry Rajoelina who led that coup and remained president until elections in 2013...

If rallies media coverage and razzamatazz are reliable indicators of popular support then it is the man who deposed Ravalomanana Andry Rajoelina who will assume power in January...

Joining Ravalomanana's Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) in the protests is the eponymous Miaraka Amin'i Prezida Andry Rajoelina (MAPAR) the party of Ravalomanana's nemesis who led the 2009 coup...

Although Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina remain implacable enemies the two former presidents see a need for their parties to present a united front against HVM and the advantages that incumbency confers – the latest of which helped parachute HVM's President Rivo Rakotovao into position as the President of the Senate...

Polls in the airOver the next year Hery will gear up for a daunting re-election battle against his two immediate predecessors Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana – both big personalities who can mobilise a core of committed support...

The amnesty rules look set to exclude Hery's two main rivals ex-President Marc Ravalomanana and former transition regime chief Andry Rajoelina from the 2018 presidential race...

The lower house however is more important in approving legislation and government programmes and here the President lacks a reliable majority even though it can sometimes exploit splits in the opposition Miaraka amin'ny Prézidà Andry Rajoelina (MAPAR)...

Rajaonarimampianina was elected with the support of coup leader and Transitional President Andry Rajoelina and his party Miaraka amin'ny Prézidà Andry Rajoelina (Mapar AC Vol 55 No 3 Hery must make his mark)...

The partnership is a strategic necessity for Hery who has a fragile political base since falling out with his onetime patron the head of the Haute Autorité de la Transition (HAT) transitional regime from 2009 to 2013 Andry Rajoelina who now sees himself as the government's principal opponent...

The former leader of the transition responded by asserting himself through the 147-seat National Assembly where his Miaraka amin'ny Prézidà Andry Rajoelina (Mapar) electoral alliance became the largest force albeit short of an absolute majority...