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Led movement
the younger generation or Gen Z
rejects dialogue with the President of Madagascar
Andry Rajoelina
and called for a strike and new demonstrations on Thursday (9/10).
Rajoelina disbanded his government last week.He appointed an army general as prime minister last Monday.
He also held a public meeting at the Presidential Palace, Wednesday (8/10).However, the meeting was booed by Gen Z who led the protest.
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“We reject this false dialogue,” the group said on social media, quoted from
AFP
.
One of the student leaders remained at the event, and told the 51-year-old president: “Poverty is getting worse in Madagascar because there is too much corruption in the government.”
“Students can’t focus on studying because of the lack of light. There’s no water. There are even rats where we sleep,” he accused in a passionate tirade that was met with thunderous applause from the crowd of around 1,000 people that day.
Other speakers brought up more personal cases, such as an imprisoned husband or an unemployed son, in conversations broadcast live on radio and television.
In response, Rajoelina promised to resign if the capital was still hit by power outages within a year.
Rajoelina has also appointed new ministers to head three portfolios covering the military, public security and police, saying the country “no longer needs disorder but peace”.
The movement, which consists of around 20 groups, has submitted a list of demands to Rajoelina, including a public apology for violence against protesters.
Other demands are an overhaul of the Constitutional Court and the dissolution of the Senate, or at least the dismissal of its chairman, Richard Ravalomanana, a former police general.
Since last week, thousands of Madagascar young people have demonstrated in various regions after the government turned off electricity and water.This protest then spread along with public frustration with the increasingly rampant poverty in Madagascar.
Reporting from
Deutsche Welle
(DW
), some demonstrators were seen carrying banners reading “We want to live, not survive”.
Based on World Bank records, 75 percent of Madagascar’s 30 million people live below the poverty line.This island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa is one of the poorest countries in the region.
Only about a third or 36 percent of the population has access to electricity.This access is also unreliable because every day there are blackouts for hours.
This demonstration in Madagascar ended in chaos and at least 22 people were killed, according to a United Nations (UN) report.There was also looting in various supermarkets, small shops and banks.Houses belonging to politicians are no exception to being the target of public anger.
(fra/afp/fra)
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