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Zafy was impeached in 1996, and Ratsiraka, who had been in exile in France, achieved a political comeback in late 1996 when he won that year's presidential election, running as the candidate of the AREMA party.
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Zafy and was
As president Zafy was frustrated by the restraints placed upon the powers of his office by the new constitution.
A number of already existing political parties and their leaders, among them Albert Zafy and Manandafy Rakotonirina, anchored this movement which was especially strong in Antananarivo and the surrounding high plateau.
Zafy was sworn in as President on March 27, 1993.
Zafy was born in Ambilobe, Diana Region.
At a national conference of the opposition in 1990, Zafy was elected as President of the Committee of Active Forces ( CFV ), a cooperation group of several opposition parties, including Zafy's UNDD.
Zafy was detained for a week in late July 1991 and was met with a crowd of about 100, 000 supporters upon his release.
Ravony resigned in October 1995, and Zafy appointed Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, who was the head of the UNDD and had been Minister of State for Rural Development and Land Reform, in his place.
Zafy received some support in the second round from those who, despite their criticisms of Zafy, felt he was preferable to Ratsiraka, such as Interim President Norbert Ratsirahonana, who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the first round.
Zafy became the leader of the National Reconciliation Committee ( CRN ), which was founded in June 2002 to promote national reconciliation among the leading participants in the political crisis that followed the 2001 election.
Rajoelina's government initially barred Zafy and others from returning to Madagascar after the talks, but later he was allowed to return.
Didier Ratsiraka returned from exile on November 24, 2011, a move that was welcomed by the Rajoelina regime as well as by former presidents ( and former opponents ) Ravalomanana and Zafy.
Zafy and 1996
Zafy eventually won the power he sought after but suffered impeachment at the hands of the disenfranchised parliament in 1996 for violating the constitution by refusing to promulgate specific laws.
After President Zafy's impeachment by the National Assembly in 1996 and the short quasi-presidency of Norbert Ratsirahonana, the 1997 elections once again pitted Zafy and Ratsiraka, with Ratsiraka this time emerging victorious.
He served as Foreign Minister himself from 1993 to 1996, under President Albert Zafy.
In his 1996 campaign, Zafy blamed the problems faced by Madagascar during his presidency on his opponents and the International Monetary Fund, and he downplayed the charges against him that had led to his impeachment.
Zafy and Ratsiraka
** Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.
Under the new constitution, the Malagasy public elected President Albert Zafy, President Didier Ratsiraka, and most recently President Marc Ravalomanana.
The first multi-party elections came in 1993, with Albert Zafy defeating Ratsiraka.
Runoff elections were held in February 1993, and the leader of the Hery Velona movement, Albert Zafy, defeated Ratsiraka.
After Didier Ratsiraka took power in 1975, Zafy resigned from the government and joined the University of Madagascar.
In the multiparty presidential election held in November 1992, Zafy placed first in the first round with about 45 % of the vote ; Ratsiraka placed second with about 29 %.
In the second round, held on December 29, Zafy narrowly lost to Ratsiraka, taking 49. 29 % of the vote and losing by about 45, 000 votes.
Zafy led an attempt to impeach Ratsiraka in early 1998, accusing him of various charges, including perjury and nepotism ; he also accused Ratsiraka of violating the constitution in his moves toward decentralization and the strengthening of the presidency at the expense of the National Assembly's power.
Zafy travelled to Paris in June 2007, where he met with Ratsiraka and members of his former government who were also in exile.
On August 4, 2009, as part of negotiations for a solution to the political crisis, Zafy met with Rajoelina, Ravalomanana, and Ratsiraka, along with former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, who acted as mediator at the four day long mediation crisis talks held in Maputo.
Ratsiraka ran in the multiparty November 1992 presidential election, placing second behind Zafy in the first round.
In the second round, held in February 1993, Ratsiraka lost to Zafy, taking about one-third of the vote, and left office on March 27.
Members of the opposition, including Zafy, unsuccessfully attempted to impeach Ratsiraka in February 1998, accusing him of violating the constitution through decentralizing reforms that would increase his own power at the expense of that of the National Assembly.
On August 4, 2009, Ratsiraka met with President of the High Authority of Transition of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina, as well as Ravalomanana ( who had himself been ousted and forced into exile ) and Zafy, in crisis talks mediated by former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano and held in Maputo.
Zafy and who
Within two months, a transitional government had been established under the leadership of Albert Zafy ( 1993 – 96 ), who went on to win the 1992 presidential elections and inaugurate the Third Republic ( 1992 – 2010 ).
Zafy and had
Reacting to the raid, Zafy said that he did not recognize Ravalomanana as president and had never recognized him as such.
Zafy and late
In the second round, held on February 10, 1993, Zafy won the presidency with 66. 74 % of the vote ; he took office in late March.
Zafy and won
Zafy subsequently won a seat in the May 1998 parliamentary election, becoming the oldest deputy in the National Assembly.
Zafy and presidential
On August 31, 2001, Zafy announced that he would again run in the December 2001 presidential election.
Zafy and .
Zafy ran on a ticket critical of the IMF and World Bank.
Albert Zafy ( born 1 May 1927 ) is a Malagasy politician.
On July 16, 1991, the CFV declared the creation of an alternative government, with Zafy as its Prime Minister.
Zafy became head of the High Authority of the State, which, along with the Social and Economic Recovery Council, replaced the Supreme Revolutionary Council and the National Assembly during the 1991 – 1993 transitional period.
On September 5, Zafy announced that he would leave office on October 10, and he described his impeachment as a " constitutional coup d ' état " that occurred a result of his criticism of the National Assembly.
was and impeached
The assembly and the courts were regarded as the instantiation of the people of Athens: they were the people, no power was above them and they could not be reviewed, impeached or punished.
Chase was impeached and acquitted for his conduct of a trial under the Sedition act.
Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U. S. Senate and served his complete term of office.
To proceed with reforms opposed by the majority of the communist party, Gorbachev aimed to consolidate power in a new position, President of the Soviet Union, which was independent from the CPSU and the soviets ( councils ) and whose holder could be impeached only in case of direct violation of the law.
** Andrew Johnson, Democrat / National Union, was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act.
** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.
John Finch was impeached the following day, and he consequently fled to the Hague with Charles's permission on 21 December.
He was consequently impeached in 1996, and an interim president, Norbert Ratsirahonana, was appointed for the three months prior to the next presidential election.
* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.
Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive.
President Johnson ignored the Act, and was later impeached and acquitted.
Only one justice has been impeached by the House of Representatives ( Samuel Chase, March 1804 ), but he was acquitted in the Senate ( March 1805 ).
* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital city of Chang ' an, an imperial prince was impeached from his position by officials at court for erecting a building that obstructed a street in the northwesternmost ward in South Central Chang ' an.
When Parliament met, the demands could not have been less acceptable to Margaret: not only were both Somerset and Suffolk impeached for criminal mismanagement of French affairs and subverting justice, but it was charged as a crime against Suffolk ( now a duke ) that he had antagonised the king against the Duke of York.
When President Andrew Johnson, who had no vice president, was impeached and tried in 1868, Senate President pro tempore Benjamin Franklin Wade was next in line to the presidency.
Walpole was impeached by the House of Commons and found guilty by the overwhelmingly Tory House of Lords ; he was then imprisoned in the Tower of London for six months and expelled from Parliament.
The individuals who had brought about Walpole's impeachment in 1712 were now themselves attacked for purely political reasons: Lord Oxford was impeached, and Lord Bolingbroke suffered from an act of attainder.
He immediately had the ailing King grant pardons to all the officials impeached by the Parliament ; Alice Perrers too was reinstated at the heart of the King's household.
* In 1868, after President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, the Senate came one vote short of removing him from office ; if Johnson had been removed, President pro tempore Benjamin Wade would have become Acting President.
" The plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned ; instead, it was held that rights which had been enjoyed for twenty years ( or as against the Crown thirty years ) should not be impeached merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before ( holding by adverse possession ).
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