Talk:Marc Ravalomanana

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BBC: "Down to business in Madagascar". A-giau 18:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Benjamin Bratt?
I removed the comparison to Bratt. Seems irrelevant to his political career (and the article in general) and the comment appeared out of context where it was placed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thee darcy (talk • contribs) 16:18, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

PERSONAL RESIDENCE
His personal residency is actually in Faravohitra not in Andohalo as stated,

AVID RUGBY UNION FAN
Not true.He attend international match by duty but he is not an avid rugby union.He never attend local competition, even major events.

handling of the current political crisis
As most of the residents of the capital Antananrivo I am very concerned about how the president (and the Govt. under his command) is performing in order to seek a solution to the current crisis, keeping in mind that the president himself and his way of governing the country is the cause for the crisis. I share the opinion of the majority of the independant media (this means not directly controlled by himself) in the country that he is not showing any willingness for compromise and not accepting any personal responsibility for the deterioration of the situation. I therefore propse the following edit to his page and look forward any comments on this edit. Proof of the accuracy of this edit can be found in the articles of local newspapers (L'Express de Madagascar, Madagascar Tribune, Midi Madagasikara, La Gazette de la Grande Ile) and in the braodcasted news of local TV stations (Ma TV, TV Plus, RTA) and Radio Stations (Radio Antsiva, Radio Don Bosco).

While Ravalomanana let international mediation efforts in February 2009 fail, he prepared the military with the help of foreign mercenaries. Beginning of March, he contributed to escalating the situation. He abolished the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and demonstration by declaring all public places used for demonstrations "off limits". With the help of foreign mercenaries the units of the military loyal to him uses brutal force to prevent demonstrations and selects individual citizens, often no demonstrators, to brutalize them. This course of actions is compared by some of the local media to the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, who terrorizes his people to stay in power. On March 7 officers in the largest military camp near Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo have declared refusing to take any more orders from the president. They claimed to deplore the actions taken by the presidental guard and the froeign mercenaries against the malagsy people which undermine the image of the military. They declared to be loyal only the constitutional oath to protect the citizens, not to fight them.


 * Ruremich, you have tried several times to add this to the main article. As you concede above, this is your opinion, and thus, without proper cites from respected sources (not blogs) cannot be in the main article. This talk page is only here to improve the main article, and not to discuss Ravalomanana's faults. If you have valid references in the French press, they are acceptable here. For convenience (but not absolutely necessary), a link through google translate might smooth your way. However, any mention of Zimbabwe smacks of POV. Wizzy&hellip; &#9742; 11:21, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Army storms presidency
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7946741.stm

National hero
The article doesn't mention the fact that Madagascar has not suffered a single case of the Swine Flu pandemic under his tenure. By effectively coordinating containment with health organizations, he managed to shut down the sea port and eliminate the only source of potential infection. 99.232.219.131 (talk) 22:23, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

where lives he now?
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Massive removal
There has been some pro and some con Ravalomanana modifying this page in the past years. I'll try to skim everything that's not NPOV, and copy here everything that I cut from the text in case someone doesn't agree:


 * broken link -> broken link|url=http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/francais/actualites/deplacements_a_l_etranger/2005/juillet/madagascar-coi/madagascar_biographie_de_m_marc_ravalomanana.30729.html|date=March 2012}}, "M. Marc RAVALOMANANA, Président de la République de Madagascar.", French presidency website
 * Unverifiable -> Upon becoming president, he set up a dairy farm and rice fields to be displayed on the property of the presidential palace in Iavoloha outside the capital.
 * Irrelevant to this page -> Three of his children have been married while he was in office. His eldest daughter runs the MBS media group which controls the second largest radio and television network in the country as well as a number of minor newspapers.
 * Irrelevant, outdated -> His personal residence is in Faravohitra, a neighbourhood of the old city of Antananarivo.
 * Self-satisfactory, needs development -> As mayor he was credited with successfully cleaning up the capital.
 * This is definitely one of his biggest achievements as mayor. It should be included and further developed. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll let you do the research on this one (unless I stumble on it), because I already did and couldn't find anything (which is why I intially removed this part). importemps (t), 13:26 15 june 2012 (UTC)
 * A heavy work load will keep me away from this for at least two months, but if you have the chance to run this article thru translate.google.com (assuming you don't read French), you'll have a great source to flesh out this article. The source is reliable - Jeune Afrique is a printed magazine with a wide international distribution. Lemurbaby (talk) 03:28, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Also this book (pp. 451-2) has an interesting discussion about the debate on whether or not Ravalomanana is an andriana (hereditary noble) since his tomb lies outside the town walls where he was born (typically the andriana tombs are inside the town walls). The book explains he used that ambiguity to his advantage when he ran for president in 2001 by simultaneously portraying himself as a man of humble background who did well (it underscores how he got his start selling homemade yogurts off the back of a bicycle), and someone who would "reform" the andriana (to instill ostensibly new values of hard work and enterprise). Lemurbaby (talk) 03:37, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Misplaced -> calling Ravalomanana a dictator, a scoundrel and a thief
 * Not directly related to Ravalomanana -> On March 10, army leaders forced the recently appointed defence secretary to resign (the previous one had decided to resign after the killings by the presidential guard on February 7, 2009). They also announced that they gave the opponents 72 hours to find a solution to the crisis through dialogue before they would take further action. This move came after the leaders of the main military camp had announced a day earlier that they would not execute orders coming from the presidency any more since their duty was to protect the people, and not to oppress them, as had been done over the previous few days.
 * This content should probably be integrated into the 2009 Malagasy political crisis article. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's already in the article you mentioned Mutiny and military leadership change. importemps (t), 13:23 15 june 2012 (UTC)


 * Not related to Ravalomanana -> Rajoelina had already declared himself the new leader a month earlier and has since assumed the role of acting President. He has appointed Monja Roindefo as Prime Minister. Rajoelina announced that elections would be held in two years and that the constitution would be amended.

I haven't done the "sentencing" and "come back attempts". Importemps, talk, April 4 2012 7:21


 * THanks for all the work you've put into cleaning up this article recently, Importemps. I'd like to help if I can, although I won't have much time until July, and in the meantime I'll be trying to get the main Madagascar article up to FA. One comment for now - the article doesn't get much into Tiko or Magro and the background of how Ravalomanana grew his business or got into politics. No discussion of his educational background, personal life... If you have the time to work on this some more, those would be priority areas to incorporate, most likely right at the beginning in an "early life" section and something like a "Building a business empire" section. Maybe the religious content could be included in a "Personal life" section at the end after tracing his career. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Lemurbaby, happy to help once in a while :) I will do some research on Tiko and Magro, and let you know if I'm having a hard finding relevant stuff. importemps (t), 13:18 15 june 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding to this! Lemurbaby (talk) 03:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I found this: Settling Madagascar’s vagaries but it's not a positive review of Tiko:
 * Let us first of make it clear that before ascending to power, Ravalomanana had already enriched himself under the dictatorship of Ratsiraka. He was jailed for corruption in 1988. He was released by Ratsiraka and somehow managed to win the tender for privatisation of the same company for which he had been convicted; this is the cornerstone of the Tiko business empire. Tiko was funded by the World Bank and went on to benefit from all manner of favours, never paying taxes. The government only realised all of this too late. Ratsiraka had hoped that Ravalomanana would serve as his front man, while Ravalomanana himself was after power. He benefited his company through tax exemption, massive duty rebates on raw materials (with maximum duties for his competitors), absolute control over tender calls, delayed payments to peasant producers, ridiculously low purchase prices for public land, annexation of land, monopolistic control of all sectors of the economy, control of the media and the imprisonment of intellectuals and opponents. Added to this, of course, was the tacit approval of donors and foreign powers.
 * How accurate do you think this is? importemps (t) 19 June 2012 11:43 (UTC)
 * Hi again Lemurbaby, I've been doing a lot of research, but the results are really skim (and mostly negative)... importemps (t) 19 June 2012 15:01 (UTC)
 * That's a piece that was written at the height of the political conflict, and clearly this writer was not in favor of Ravalomanana. It's an editorial with no substantiation for its assertions, and we don't have any reason to believe the website does a lot of fact checking before publishing. There are some points here that have been substantiated in more reliable sources, like the ways he has used his position to benefit his company (and vice versa) although not necessarily breaking laws in the process, and the restrictions on freedom of speech in the later part of his administration. But we should get those details from more reliable sources than this. I take it you don't read French? Because that article in Jeune Afrique is really very good and gives a very complete biography of him. IF not, no worries. I appreciate the trouble you've gone to in the interest of improving this... I can get back to it and dig into the French sources in about a month. Lemurbaby (talk) 17:01, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

NPOV (neutrality)
Importemps, I removed the piece you inserted about criticism leveled against Ravalomanana regarding whether he cleaned up the city because as a standalone nugget of information it throws off the neutrality of the article. Of course it makes sense to include criticisms of politicians, but especially when dealing with biographies of living people we have to be careful not to use WP as a forum to amplify the voices of (potentially self-interested) political detractors. The resources I linked above go into detail about what Ravalomanana achieved in cleaning up Tana while he was mayor. Having witnessed Tana's transformation firsthand, I can verify that in this particular case, these criticisms are unfounded and are most likely politically motivated, and that will often be the case concerning politicians. There are many more sources that can confirm what Ravalomanana accomplished as mayor (although they may be in French). So let's hold off on including criticisms until we've done a thorough review of the sources to see how substantiated they are and whether there are reports to the contrary. Lemurbaby (talk) 16:52, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries, I have too noticed that a lot of the info found on the Web is distorted, which often happens in the case of a political clash. About the piece you removed, I inserted it because it was the only piece of content I could find about Tiko (and no sign of Magro or other Tiko-related brands)... Let's keep digging :) Importemps (t) 18:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Useful refs

 * Reminder to self: there is much more to take from the Ra8 PDG article.

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