Rado Milijaona, ahead of the upcoming first round of the presidential election in Madagascar, expresses dissatisfaction, stating that little has changed over the past decade. He highlights the challenges faced by the Political Finance Control Commission, which has been in existence for five years but lacks adequate resources and accountability measures. The President of the Commission has reportedly assessed transparency and campaign expense limits negatively.
In Madagascar, there is a subject that has been skating for ten years now: that of transparency and the capping of electoral campaign expenses. The last two presidential campaigns have been the theater for the candidates of the leading trio, of debauchery of means having moreover enabled one of them to win the palm of the most expensive campaign in the world per vote obtained.
Almost six months before the first round of the presidential election potential candidates only have a few days left before they start keeping campaign accounts and appointing a treasurer. An obligation provided for by law but which, like so many other electoral rules, struggles to be respected.
The person who has headed the Commission for the Control of the Financing of Political Life since its creation thus draws up a more than a bitter balance sheet.