Hery Martial Rakotoarimanana Rajaonarimampianina

The final election victory of Hery Rajaonarimampianina is unlikely to provide Madagascar with the healing new start that everyone had hoped for...

Media coverage was balanced in the newspapers and public broadcast media but not on private TV channels where Hery Rajaonarimampianina the candidate favoured by coup leader Andry Rajoelina and one of two presidential hopefuls from his Tanora malaGasy Vonona (TGV) party monopolised 39% of the election airtime...

These include Edgard Razafindravahy Mayor of the capital Antananarivo; Hery Rajaonarimampianina Finance Minister since 2009; Hajo Andrianainarivelo Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Planning and Development; Roland Ratsiraka nephew of Didier Ratsiraka and Mayor of the main port Toamasina (AC Vol 52 No 1 A permanent putsch); Camille Vital former Premier; Pierrot Rajaonarivelo Foreign Affairs Minister since 2011; and Jean Lahiniriko President of the National Assembly and a stalwart of the post-coup government the Haute Autorité de la Transition (High Transition Authority HAT)...

Reports suggest that current Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina is Rajoelina's choice for the presidency...

Hery Rajaonarimampianina the Finance Minister says he will release more details before the end of March...