Legalizing Illegality in Madagascar
By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde | March 2009
This illegality will be explained away and accepted. There is a second illegality. The first, as mentioned, is the breach of constitutional requirement in terms of age; and the second is the manner in which the former president, Marc Ravalomanana, was removed. It is hard to think of what happened in Antananarivo as anything less than a coup. This was a coup – a coup undertaken on behalf of a group that’s yet to make itself public. As unstable as Madagascar is, it is almost unimaginable to have things play out as they have.
Keywords: Madagascar
