Albert Zafy

There are signs that his persistent refusal to implement the political settlement negotiated in Maputo and Addis Ababa last year with his rivals former presidents Marc Ravalomanana Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy is beginning to change the diplomatic weather...

Before the new regime can be established however the accord must be signed by the current protagonists - ousted President Marc Ravalomanana and his usurper 34-year-old Andry Rajoelina - and former Presidents Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy...

Indirect talks brokered by the African Union and two former presidents Albert Zafy and Didier Ratsiraka have made no progress...

It groups ex-President Albert Zafy's Comité pour la Réconciliation Nationale (CRN) with two new parties campaigning for an amnesty for political prisoners - the Rassemblement des Forces Nationales (RFN) led by Pasteur Edmond Razafimahefa an Episcopal Church leader who formerly supported Ravalomanana and Solidarité des Parlementaires pour la Défense de la Démocratie et de l'Unité Nationale (SPDUN) led by Mara Niarisy...

Sylla was Foreign Minister under democracy's incompetent first President Albert Zafy from 1992 to 1996 and Ravalomanana named him Premier when he declared himself President on 22 February...

Other candidates include the respected but unexciting Norbert Ratsirahonana of the Ny Asa Vita no Ifampitsarana (NVI) and the populist Albert Zafy...

In December 1996 Ratsiraka won the presidential election against Albert Zafy former head of the Forces Vives ('life forces' the democracy movement) and briefly (1993-96) President of the country; Zafy impeached in July 1996 presents no threat this time...

Democrats Nicéphore Soglo in Benin and Albert Zafy in Madagascar were both beaten in second-round votes by former dictators...

As we went to press the frontrunners were: Pascal Rakotomavo the favourite an ex-Finance Minister who ran the Admiral's election campaign; ex-Agriculture Minister Joël Andrianoelison; and Herizo Razafimahaleo Ratsiraka's former Special Advisor who came third in the first round of the presidential poll; an outsider is outgoing Prime Minister Norbert Ratsirahonana who backed the defeated President Albert Zafy while keeping close contact with Ratsiraka...

They do not like the choice between the first-round front-runners Admiral Didier Ratsiraka and Professor Albert Zafy who were rivals at the last presidential election in 1993...