ANTANANARIVO - Former Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana said he had sustained a leg injury on Saturday (Oct 7) when police and soldiers fired teargas to disperse a gathering of his supporters and those of other candidates challenging the incumbent president. The Indian Ocean island is hoping for its third peaceful election since the upheaval of 2009 when incumbent president Andry...
Madagascar Presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana addresses supporters, during a campaign rally at the at the Mahamasina stadium in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Nov 3, 2018.ANTANANARIVO - Former Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana said he had sustained a leg injury on Saturday when police and soldiers fired teargas to disperse a gathering of his supporters and those of other candidates challenging the incumbent president.
Ravalomanana, who is among 11 candidates cleared to challenge Rajoelina in elections set for Nov 9, showed on his Facebook page a photo of an injury on his left leg with blood dripping from it.Julien Andriamorasata, a member of the political bureau of Ravalomanana's party, confirmed he had been hurt.Police and other government officials were not immediately available to comment.
They also want Rajoelina to be disqualified from running on the grounds that he is not a Madagascan citizen, an accusation he has in the past dismissed. Earlier, a Reuters witness at the scene in the centre of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo confirmed that police had fired teargas at the demonstrators, who numbered in the hundreds.