The President of the Republic started his marathon weekend in Mahajanga yesterday. During this first day, the Head of State focused on state feats of arms despite a difficult situation for more than three years.
“The state does not give up”. These are the words of Andry Rajoelina, President of the Republic, in front of the inhabitants of Mahajanga, yesterday. Words said during the inauguration of the Hôtel des Finances, in the city centre.
The tenant of Iavoloha has a series of inaugurations in the city of flowers. A program that started yesterday, and will not end until tomorrow, at the end of the followingnoon. Achievements on which the Head of State relies on the efforts and work done by the state during the three and a half years of Andry Rajoelina’s mandate. This, in the words of the President, himself, despite the multiple difficulties that have followed since 2020, above all.
“There was the Covid-19, then the waves of cyclones and now the war in Ukraine. There were dark days, but that didn’t stop us from continuing to work,” chanted Andry Rajoelina in front of the students at the University of Ambondrona. He then just inaugurated the new campus dormitory. A new infrastructure that can accommodate three hundred students. Those at master’s level will be the first beneficiaries. A dozen of them were thus given the first rooms from the hands of the tenant of Iavoloha.
presence of the state
Faced with the inhabitants of Mahajanga, at the start of the evening, in his inauguration speech at the Hôtel des Finances, President Rajoelina once more returned to the charge. “We are working, we are working hard although the last three years have been difficult. We do not lower our arms. Madagascar will not hoist the white flag. Madagascar will emerge victorious”, he says.
To demonstrate to the inhabitants of Mahajanga the work carried out by the state, despite the health crisis, natural disasters and the war in Ukraine, the tenant of Iavoloha highlights the infrastructures which he continues to inaugurate. “I disembarked at Mahajanga this morning and I am still with you, until now, and there is still so much to do here. So I’ll still be here tomorrow [aujourd’hui] and Sunday,” says Andry Rajoelina.
The Head of State and his suite began yesterday with the inauguration of the new high school located in Amborovy. The third public high school in the city of Mahajanga. It includes twelve classrooms, a computer room with an interactive whiteboard and digital tablets available to high school students, as well as an equipped laboratory. The presidential delegation continued with the inauguration of the territorial office of the Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC), still in Amborovy.
After the two sites in Amborovy, the tenant of Iavoloha went to the university campus of Ambondrona for the inauguration of the new dormitory. After a lunch break, he made a trip to the rural town of Belobaka, in the district of Mahajanga II. “We have decided to set up this office as close as possible to the population, as close as possible to those who need it the most”, explains the President of the Republic.
The President took the opportunity to emphasize that over the past three years, his administration has endeavored to affirm the presence of the state “in each district through local infrastructure, up to standard and meeting the needs of the population. “. In this sense, the improvement of the quality of public services “in accordance with the quality of the infrastructures made available to civil servants”, is required by the tenant of Iavoloha.
Andry Rajoelina does not, however, dodge the consequences of the successive crises of the last three years, in particular, the last, which is the war between Russia and Ukraine. He notably touched word regarding the rise in fuel prices. “We negotiated until one o’clock in the morning with the tankers. We managed to convince them to calculate the price increase on the basis of a price of 100 dollars a barrel of oil and not 117 dollars, as they wanted to do. Otherwise, the liter of diesel would be bought at more than 6,000 ariary”, he pleads.
In line with the fight once morest the rising cost of living, the tenant of Iavoloha immediately announced the inauguration of a sugar factory today in Antanamifafy. A job provider project, first, but which will also strengthen local production and help control the price of sugar on the national market. To conclude his last speech of the day yesterday, Andry Rajoelina emphasized the need to be supportive and united to face the current difficulties.
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A presidential reframing. This is what Andry Rajoelina reserved for the executives of the “Tanora Malagasy vonona” (TGV) party in Mahajanga. A remonstrance addressed to the deputy Lalao Rahantanirina, vice-president of the National Assembly in charge of the province of Mahajanga, and Mokhtar Andriantomanga, governor of the Boeny region. Although he used a relatively light tone, the presidential remarks should definitively put an end to the leadership conflict between the two figures of the Orange camp.
“We must remain united, united and leave aside the wars”, declared the President of the Republic during the inauguration of the Mahajanga financial institution. An appeal to the population, including those within his political family. Turning to MP Rahantanirina and Governor Andriantomanga, he slips, “I am delighted with your reconciliation”, adding, “we are in the same boat. It only takes one of us to make a hole in it for us all to sink together. We will then give air to our adversaries”.
