Madagascar: the registration campaign for the 2023 election is controversial
The Malagasy power wants to retrospectively register 3 million people who have no civil status so that they can participate in the 2023 presidential election. RFI / Sarah Tetaud
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In Madagascar, to vote, you need a birth certificate to obtain an identity card.
Only problem, many inhabitants do not have civil status.
This is why the executive believes that a retroactive birth registration campaign is needed for 3 million people so that they can participate in the 2023 presidential election. within civil society.
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With our correspondent in Antananarivo,
Laure Verneau
For Ketakandriana Rafitoson, the executive director of Transparency International, the very short deadline, until December 2022, could cause duplicates in the allocation of national identity card numbers, with the impact of the possibility of voting several times.
During the last presidential election, in 2018, duplicate card numbers and false identity cards were already part of the irregularities pointed out by the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) during its audit.
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To read also: Madagascar: start of the voter census for the overhaul of the electoral list
Unsustainable deadlines
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In addition, an adult could go to court to quickly obtain an identity card, a procedure which can take up to a month in normal times.
How to do it in good conditions for 3 million people between now and the election?
This is what Mbitanarivo Andriantsihorisoa, the president of the Syndicate of Magistrates of Madagascar, which has 983 throughout the country, wonders.
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We are not against the procedure in itself,
he moderates,
but it must respect the legal procedures in force.
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In a press release on September 9, the union already expressed its concerns about potential irregularities.
The magistrates announced there that they would not participate in the operation despite the requisition of the executive with a bonus at stake.
The clerks, who went on strike on Thursday, have among their demands their refusal to participate in the supplementary judgment operation.
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