The outgoing president of Madagascar and candidate for his re-election on November 9, Andry Rajoelina, denounced Sunday night the actions of 11 opposition candidates whom he accuses of ” creating from scratch” a brand new political disaster.

Malagasy folks go to the polls on November 9 to decide on their president and governors. The pre-election local weather has deteriorated considerably in current weeks.

The Malagasy opposition denounced on September 12 “an institutional coup d’état” orchestrated by the camp of President Rajoelina, after the Prime Minister, an in depth buddy of the top of state, was liable for performing within the interim for the election interval.

“Some candidates are usually not prepared. They’re asking for a transition ,” declared Mr. Rajoelina, 49, in a televised handle broadcast on a number of channels on Sunday night.

“There isn’t a disaster in Madagascar. It’s a disaster created from scratch. If the candidates beloved the homeland, they’d not act like this within the run-up to the election. It’s not 10 or 11 individuals who will stop the inhabitants from exercising their proper to vote, he added.

13 candidates are within the working for the presidential election on November 9, together with Mr. Rajoelina, 49, who got here to energy in 2009 following a mutiny that ousted former president Marc Ravalomanan , additionally a candidate within the election. of November.

Banned from working by the worldwide neighborhood in 2013, Andry Rajoelina was elected in 2018. “There are individuals who wish to foment unrest within the nation ,” he warned in his speech on Sunday night.

“There are individuals who wish to burn down infrastructure, together with Metropolis Corridor. We don’t settle for that. I name on the inhabitants to guard frequent property and to not settle for the unrest that folks wish to foment within the nation ,” he stated.

Eleven of the 13 presidential candidates known as for a public rally – “to make our voices heard” – Monday morning on the Place du 13 Mai in Antananarivo, recognized for having been the scene of all of the political protests on the Massive Island of ‘Indian Ocean.

It was on this sq. that in 2009, Mr. Rajoelina, then mayor of the capital, elevated the variety of weekly rallies in opposition to the ability of Mr. Ravalomanana, which led to a mutiny and the departure of the latter.