{"id":55948,"date":"2025-10-14T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/madagascar-s-presidency-dissolves-national-assembly\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:58:13","slug":"madagascar-s-presidency-dissolves-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/madagascar-s-presidency-dissolves-national-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar&#8217;s Presidency dissolves National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The National Assembly is dissolved, in accordance with the provisions of Article 60 of the Constitution,&#8221; the decree said.<\/p>\n<p>The dissolution announcement came when the National Assembly was &#8220;in the process of collecting signatures to convene an extraordinary session aimed at impeaching the head of state,&#8221; according to local media. <\/p>\n<p>Madagascar\u2019s President Andry Rajoelina reportedly fled to France following intense protests, which were joined by the military. Before leaving on Sunday, he had warned of an &#8220;attempt to seize power illegally&#8221; after soldiers participated in anti-government protests in the capital, Antananarivo, marking the most significant challenge to his rule since his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rajoelina condemned the actions as unconstitutional and undemocratic. The warning came after dramatic scenes on Saturday when soldiers from the elite CAPSAT unit, which played a key role in the 2009 uprising that brought Rajoelina to power, joined protesters at the Place du 13 Mai.<\/p>\n<p>The troops, welcomed by cheering crowds, urged security forces to &#8220;refuse orders to shoot&#8221; and condemned police violence against demonstrators. <\/p>\n<p>The protests, initially sparked by power outages and water shortages, have expanded into a broader call for political reform, demanding Rajoelina\u2019s resignation, an apology for police violence, and the dissolution of the Senate and electoral commission.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-96157\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/re-20.jpg\" alt=\"The President of Madagascar Andry Nirina Rajoelina reportedly fled to France as the military joined protestors in the capital, Antananarivo.   \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency of Madagascar on Tuesday announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Malagasy bicameral Parliament, according to a decree issued by the Presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000096156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000096156,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/68ecdd3762d82_image.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000096156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55948"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55948"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}