Madagascar names anticorruption chief as PM days after cabinet dissolved
Al Jazeera
President announces Mamitiana Rajaonarison as prime minister after Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo was dismissed.
Madagascar’s President Michael Randrianirina, who seized power in October, has appointed the country’s anticorruption chief as prime minister, barely a week after dissolving the cabinet.
The presidency said on Sunday that Mamitiana Rajaonarison, a former senior gendarmerie officer and career civil administrator, would head the new government.
Colonel Randrianirina, who promised a string of reforms after he took power last year, said Rajaonarison would lead the government “on a clean path” and restore hope.
“The Malagasy nation needs bold decisions. We are now at a turning point,” Randrianirina said at a ceremony in the presidential palace broadcast on state television.
“This country needs a person of integrity, a person of principle, incorruptible and who cannot be bought with money.”
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