Hery Martial Rakotoarimanana Rajaonarimampianina

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...

The outgoing president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, struggled during his mandate to produce noticeable economic growth to address the island's widespread poverty...

The mourning for the dead, further protests and calls for the resignation of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina have continued outside the capital's hôtel de ville, historically a focus for demonstrations...

President Hery Rajaonarimampianina is desperately trying to regain the political initiative after taking heavy blows to his government's reputation after it allowed a controversial presidential advisor to leave the country...

Supporters of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina decided to raise the stakes...

Mahafaly is the third premier appointed by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina since he came to office in January 2014...

Eighteen months of political quarrels came to a head when Parliament voted on 26 May to impeach President Hery Rajaonarimampianina...

An alliance between former President Marc Ravalomanana and the current President, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, is gathering momentum as church leaders nudge Madagascar's political leaders down the path of national reconciliation...

At last the island has a new President, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, elected on 20 December with 53...

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...