Marc Ravalomanana

That seems to be the aim of the veteran Red Admiral Didier Ratsiraka who clings to the presidency despite a ruling by the High Constitutional Court on 29 April that his rival Marc Ravalomanana had won 51 per cent of the vote on 16 December to Ratsiraka's 36 per cent (AC Vol 43 Nos 2 & 7)...

No big tent for Marc Ravalomanana's attempts at reconciliation have been stymied...

Yet Wade claimed most of the credit and gave the best sound-bites offering Senegal's follow-up services as mediator between the island's would-be presidents Didier Ratsiraka and Marc Ravalomanana...

Tension is rising as the standoff between the country's parallel presidents continues veering between good-natured though fervent protest (especially by Marc Ravalomanana's supporters) and violent attacks on the opposition (particularly by President Didier Ratsiraka's supporters)...

Even the Interior Ministry's provisional results give President Didier Ratsiraka just over 40 per cent of the vote to 46 per cent for his rival Marc Ravalomanana (AC Vol 42 No 24)...

Madagascans expect a close race in the 16 December presidential election when the main challenger to long entrenched President Didier Ratsiraka is the rank outsider media magnate and supermarket tycoon Marc Ravalomanana...

One businessman Marc Ravalomanana who is Mayor of Antananarivo (and very popular there and elsewhere) has trouble implementing his plans for slum clearance and cholera eradication; the World Bank offers the money the bureaucracy blocks it...