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Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) dissolved the nationalist assembly, pre-empting an opposition-led ballot to unit him out of bureau implicit the land nation’s spiralling governmental crisis.
Mr. Rajoelina has faced implicit 2 weeks of deadly thoroughfare clashes, led mostly by young demonstrators furious with the ruling elite, forcing the 51-year-old person into hiding.
The decree to dissolve the assembly “shall participate into unit instantly upon its work by vigor and/or tv broadcast”, the presidency said successful a connection published connected Facebook.
Mr. Rajoelina, who has defied mounting calls to resign, defended the determination successful a abstracted societal media station arsenic indispensable to “restore bid wrong our federation and fortify democracy.”
“The People indispensable beryllium heard again. Make mode for the youth,” helium said successful a station connected societal media.
Opposition person Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko said connected Monday (October 13) they would ballot to impeach Mr. Rajoelina for desertion of work pursuing reports helium had fled the country.
Mr. Rajoelina, a erstwhile politician of the superior Antananarivo, said precocious connected Monday (October 13) he was sheltering successful a “safe space” aft attempts connected his life, without revealing his location.
The protests began connected September 25 and reached a pivotal constituent astatine the play erstwhile mutinous soldiers and information forces joined the demonstrators and called for the president and different authorities ministers to measurement down.
Among them were the elite CAPSAT unit, which played a large relation successful the 2009 coup that archetypal brought Mr. Rajoelina to power.
To effort to defuse the protests, the President past period sacked his full government.
Radio France Internationale reported that Mr. Rajoelina departed Madagascar aboard a French subject level astatine the weekend, but French officials person yet to respond to AFP’s petition for confirmation.
