In the Madagascar presidential election, candidate Andry Rajoelina is leading against his rival Marc Ravalomanana, when 92 percent of votes were disclosed and declared on Sunday, through the electoral commission drawing allegation of fraud from Marc.
According to news reports, after tallying 92 percent of vote’s results, the commissions said that as compared to 45.14 percent of votes for Ravalomanana, Marc had yet received about 54.86 percent of votes in his favour.
Earlier, before the poll session has begun, both the ex-president – Rajoelina and Marc, had said whatever the outcome will be obtained, they would accept it, with a hope of peaceful outcome and would not repeat the political crisis and chaos again like a decade ago.
But however, on Sunday, Ravalomanana had outlined a criticism over the electoral body and said them to investigate the election results.
In an official statement, on Sunday, Ravalomanana stated, “Fraud and violence have prevailed and this has an impact on the results. The results of this election are not credible and the election is not transparent.”
He further said, “It is true that I said that I will respect the results if the rules are respected. Unfortunately, it is not the case,” further calling on his supporters “whose rights have been violated, to stand up and defend their choices”.
In fact, the electoral commission said to help both candidates to verify the results by themselves once.
During a news conference on Monday, deputy chairman of the electoral commission said, “Candidates’ representatives asked for the comparison of the minutes, the verification of the used and non-used ballot. In the name of transparency, the INEC accepts.”
He further said, “Also, to show the will of the INEC, we can also publish the counting sheets, the ballots that have been used and that have been not used if it is needed, even it is not our competence.”
He said that on Thursday, a full provisional results would be declared.
Deputy chairman said: “We do not stray from the three principles that have guided us from the beginning: transparency, respect for the law and inclusiveness. We could publish those results sooner, but to give the candidates time to check them, we will only do it on Dec. 27.”
On Friday, the head of observation mission of the EU (European Union) said: “The voting operations were as calm as in the first round.”
He further said, “We did not see any fraud. Both accused each other of fraud, but neither of them had any proof. There are allegations not facts. We told them to bring this to justice.”
Last month, in the first round of election, Marc had received 39.32 percent of votes in favour against Ravalomanana’s 35.35 percent of votes.