Rapid are the developments in Madagascarafter the army made today (14.10.2025) coup As a result, he seized power immediately after the vote at the National Assembly that dismissed the head of state.
Mass folk mobilizations and demonstrations of recent days in Madagascar have caused radical political changes, which resulted in President Andri Rajelina, which “paved the way” in the army to carry out a coup to fill the “vacuum” immediately.
“We will take power today and dismantle the Senate and the Supreme Constitutional Court. OR National Assembly will continue her workColonel Michela Radrianirina said in a speech outside the Presidential Palace in the center of the capital.
#Madagascar : “We are going to take power from today and we are dissolving the Senate and the High Constitutional Court. We let the National Assembly continue to work,” Colonel Michael Randrianirina declared this Tuesday, October 14, in front of the presidential palace. pic.twitter.com/q0P4qMZHW1
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The Supreme Constitutional Court called on Colonel Radianirina to take over the presidency after the military coup and asked him to organize elections within the next 60 days.
Colonel Michela Radianirina / Reuters / Zo Andrianjafy
A little earlier, The now discount president Rajelinalocated in an unknown location, announced that dissolves the National Assembly and he complained that His referral to trial with the question of the “deprived legality” dismissal.
According to the French radio station RFI, Rajelina left the country on Sunday (12.10.2025) with a French military aircraft. His army had assigned power for the first time in 2009, after a popular uprising.
“We will set up a committee consisting of army, gendarmerie, national police officers. There may also be citizens of consultants. This committee will undertake to continue the work of the Presidency. At the same time, within a few days, we will set up a political government, “Colonel Radrianirina, the head of the Capsat unit, told the French agency.
Madagascar soldiers in anti -government demonstrations / reuters / zo Andrianjafy
This unit, which played a decisive role in the 2009 coup, overturned the balance of forces on Saturday (11.10.2025) when united with the protesters which had begun the protest movement on September 25, 2025.
Her officers called her security forces “refuse to shoot»The protesters and then joined them with them.
Overall 130 of the 163 MPs, that is, over two -thirds required, voted today (14.10.2025) in favor of the abolition of Andri Rajelina. Normally, the dismissal should be validated by the Supreme Constitutional Court, but which was dissolved by the army.
World celebrates the army’s participation in anti -government demonstrations / reuters / siphiwe Sibeko
President Rajelina said he has begun “many official visits to friendly countries, members of SADC”, the South African Cooperation Organization. In the capital Antananarivo Thousands of demonstrators are still concentrated.
They are mainly young people who responded to the call of Genz collectivity, with whom workers were subsequently united, after a strike that they declared many unions and people of all ages.
Madagascar, a poor island of the Indian Ocean, has a long history of popular uprisings and military governments.
At least 80% of Madagascar’s 32 million residents live with less than 2.80 euros a day, that is, below the poverty line set by the World Bank.