00:00That was not a coup d'etat.
00:02To me, a coup d'etat means bringing soldiers, for example,
00:05marching toward the presidential palace,
00:08either in Iavaloja or in Ambohitsirohitra,
00:11bringing soldiers and guns and shooting people,
00:14injuring people, arresting people.
00:17That is not what happened.
00:19What happened is what we all saw in those videos.
00:23The demands made by the Malagasy people,
00:25especially the youth who joined the movement,
00:27when the unions and all the civil servants joined in.
00:31When they made their demands, that is what happened.
00:34Injuries, arrests, detentions.
00:36That is what the government did at that time,
00:39using what is called regulatory power,
00:41in French Pouvoir Regulateur,
00:43which the HCC took up and used.
00:46And they appointed us, the military under my command,
00:49to lead the country and the transition.
00:52Remember that if the HCC had not taken that decision,
00:55no one knows what state Madagascar would be in today,
00:58because we were close to, excuse me, civil war at that time.
01:02Without the HCC giving us that mandate,
01:05we don't know what would have happened.
01:07So it was the HCC that gave us the authority,
01:10not the power we seized at the palace.
01:13It was not a coup d'etat.
01:14It was the will of the people.
01:16I have already made several statements about that matter,
01:19that those people will be sent back to prison,
01:22because at that time,
01:23things were still very tense when we were at Capsat,
01:26and we heard that those people were released,
01:28and we did not know who authorised it.
01:31But you can follow the court proceedings closely.
01:34There is an ongoing investigation regarding that,
01:37to bring back those individuals who were released in an illegal manner.
01:41Regarding what is happening within Jarama,
01:43the demands made by the unions are several.
01:46First, the cancellation of the statute put in place
01:49by the previous administration,
01:51which the unions believe was meant to facilitate
01:54the privatisation of Jarama.
01:56That is one point.
01:58The second is the dissolution of the board of directors.
02:01The third is restructuring,
02:03because there are 13 deputy general directors,
02:06which is a heavy burden for Jarama,
02:08and the unions are right about that.
02:11Fourth, the release of the Jarama employees in Mahajanga,
02:14who were arrested.
02:16And the fifth and final demand
02:18is the removal of the current general director.
02:21Those are the demands made by the unions.
02:23They have already reported them to me,
02:25and we have discussed them.
02:27And I told them clearly.
02:29You have the fundamental right to express
02:32and demand what you are asking for.
02:34You can do so, but do not destroy public property
02:37and do not take the population hostage.
02:40That is what I clearly told them.
02:42The government made efforts.
02:44It moved forward.
02:45The board of directors was dissolved on Wednesday.
02:48They are now working on reviewing the statute.
02:51There is already a draft structure
02:53to reduce the number of deputy general directors
02:55from 13 to 4.
02:57That is already underway.
02:59This means the government is trying to respond
03:01to the union's demands.
03:03As for us now,
03:04we are still trying to restore cooperation
03:06with the international community.
03:08Because, as we all know,
03:09we are still sanctioned,
03:11including by the African Union.
03:13We are still trying to deal with that.
03:15But regardless,
03:16discussions are ongoing with the World Bank,
03:19the European Union,
03:20who are involved in those projects,
03:22to continue them.
03:23We had already considered that,
03:25but if it had been done earlier,
03:27we would not have reached the crisis of September 25th.
03:30There was an obstacle,
03:32an obstacle that should not have been there,
03:34and those before us know why it wasn't done.
03:36But we will move forward with it.
03:38We are waiting for recognition.
03:40Then we will proceed.
03:42As you know,
03:43there is a large sum of money,
03:45up to $600 million,
03:47which the Malagasy State does not have access to today,
03:50and no one knows how it ended up abroad.
03:53So, there are two tasks for us,
03:56the Malagasy right now.
03:58The return of Mami Ravatamanga to the country,
04:01so that the Malagasy people may judge him under Malagasy law
04:05for everything he has done to the nation.
04:07And second,
04:08our efforts to bring that money back to Madagascar.
04:12This is quite complicated,
04:14because he has already prepared himself.
04:17He has several nationalities,
04:19Ivorian and Serbian,
04:21and here Malagasy.
04:23Our Malagasy lawyers are still working on this,
04:26and the Ministry of Justice is focusing on gathering evidence
04:29to send to Mauritius,
04:30so that he can be held there.
04:32Well done.
04:33T
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