Politics of Madagascar takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic,with a pluralist multi-party system. The President of Madagascar is head of state and the Prime Minister of Madagascar is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the bicameral parliament,which is composed of the Senate and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Haroun Kabadi is a Chadian politician. He was Prime Minister of Chad from June 2002 to June 2003 and was the President of the National Assembly of Chad from June 2011 to April 2021.
The Senate is the upper chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Madagascar. The Senate has 18 members:12 are indirectly elected,one from each of the 22 regions of Madagascar,and 6 are appointed by the President.
Charles Rabemananjara was Prime Minister of Madagascar from 2007 to 2009. He took office on 20 January 2007 at the beginning of the second term of President Marc Ravalomanana.
Yvan Randriasandratriniony is a Malagasy politician. He served in the government of Madagascar as Minister of Agriculture,Breeding and Fishing from March 2002 to January 2004 and Minister of Decentralization and Regional Planning from January 2007 to April 2008. He became President of Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM),the ruling party,in October 2007,and he was President of the Senate of Madagascar from May 2008 to March 2009;he also served for a time as ambassador to South Africa.
Andry Nirina Rajoelina is a Malagasy-French politician and businessman who has served as president of Madagascar since 2023. He previously served as president from 2019 to 2023,and was president of a provisional government from 2009 to 2014 following a political crisis and military-backed coup,having held the office of Mayor of Antananarivo for one year prior. Before entering the political arena,Rajoelina was involved in the private sector,including a printing and advertising company called Injet in 1999 and the Viva radio and television networks in 2007.
The High Transitional Authority was a provisional executive body that came to power in Madagascar following the coup that forced Marc Ravalomanana to leave the country on March 17,2009,as a result of the 2009 Malagasy protests. It was headed by Andry Rajoelina,who appointed members to the body weeks prior to the handing of executive authority from Ravalomanana to the military,which subsequently gave the authority over to the High Transitional Authority.
General elections were held in Madagascar on 20 December 2013,following a first round of presidential elections on 25 October. The presidential elections in December were a runoff between Jean Louis Robinson and Hery Rajaonarimampianina,the top two candidates to emerge from the first round of voting in October. The official results of the second round were announced on 7 January 2014 with Rajaonarimampianina proclaimed the victor with nearly 54% of the vote.
Jean Omer Beriziky is a Malagasy politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Madagascar in the government of consensus of President Andry Rajoelina from 2011 to 2014.
Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoarimanana is a Malagasy politician who served as the seventh President of Madagascar from 2014 to 2018,resigning to run for re-election.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Madagascar.
The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Madagascar.
Lieutenant General Herilanto Raveloharison is a Malagasy magistrate,politician and military officer. He served as the Minister for Economy and Strategic Planning from April 2014,under Prime Minister Roger Kolo to June 2018 when he was succeeded by Professor Marcel Napetoke under Christian Ntsay government.
Jean Ravelonarivo is a Malagasy military officer and politician who was Prime Minister of Madagascar from 17 January 2015 to 13 April 2016.
Canada–Madagascar relations are foreign relations between Canada and Madagascar. Both countries are full members of the Francophonie,United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
Béatrice Jeanine Atallah is a Malagasy politician from Lebanese origins who has served as Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs since January 2015 until August 2017.
Presidential elections were held in Madagascar on 7 November. As no candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round involving the top two candidates,Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana,was held on 19 December. On 27 December Rajoelina was announced as the winner with 56% of the vote.
Events in the year 2018 in Madagascar.
Christian Louis Ntsay is a Malagasy politician who is serving as the prime minister of Madagascar since 2018. He was appointed by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina following Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana’s resignation due to widespread protests throughout the country. Ntsay is considered a technocrat and has worked for the United Nations.
Rivo Rakotovao is a Malagasy politician who served as Acting President of Madagascar from 2018 to 2019. Rakotovao also had served as President of the Senate of Madagascar from 2017 to 2021.
