{{The list of candidates to be disqualified from contesting the upcoming Madagascar presidential election is expected on Saturday while those officially cleared will be announced next Wednesday.}}
The decision on who to disallow and who to clear hinges on the country’s newly-established Special Electoral Court (CES).
The deadline for filing official requests by interested parties for a candidate’s disqualified passed on Friday morning.
Six complaints were lodged regarding former First Lady Lalao Ravalomanana, the wife of ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana, according to her lawyer Hanitra Razafimanantsoa.
Gal Albert Camille Vital, a former prime minister and current envoy to Geneva, was one of the competitors calling for her expulsion.
A committee named CCL had also asked her name to be removed.
However, Mrs Ravalomanana’s proxies immediately lodged a defence at the CES headquarters on Friday.
“We have attacked nobody. We are just defending our candidate,” Ms Razafimanantsoa said. “What we are awaiting is the actual CES confirmation of the upholding of the decision made by previous electoral judges in April.”
For her, the fact that the actual electoral court will make another decision signifies that the country must disregard the existing law.
NMG
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