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 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.

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.

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.

Under the new constitution, the Malagasy public elected President Albert Zafy, President Didier Ratsiraka, and most recently President Marc Ravalomanana.

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.

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.

On 31 October, he signed the Panorama Convention, establishing a transitional government and stripping him of most of his powers ; although he remained President, opposition leader Albert Zafy became head of the newly established High Authority of the State.

He came in first place in the first round with 36. 6 % of the vote, ahead of his three main opponents: Zafy, Herizo Razafimahaleo, and Prime Minister / Acting President Norbert Ratsirahonana.

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.

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 ran on a ticket critical of the IMF and World Bank.

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.

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.

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.

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 expressed his objections to the transitional government at a press conference on April 1, complaining that Rajoelina would not take his advice ; he also said that he would seek provincial autonomy.

In the wake of the power-sharing agreement's collapse, Zafy declared on December 18, 2009, that the opposition would form its own government of national unity.

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.

He narrowly defeated Zafy in the runoff with 50. 7 % of the vote and took office again on February 9, 1997.

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.

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.

** Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.

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.

Albert Zafy ( born 1 May 1927 ) is a Malagasy politician.

After Didier Ratsiraka took power in 1975, Zafy resigned from the government and joined the University of Madagascar.

On July 16, 1991, the CFV declared the creation of an alternative government, with Zafy as its Prime Minister.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

The important result, however, was that Juet and Francis Clemens, the deposed boatswain, became Hudson's sworn enemies.

But there was no getting over the fact that his father had sworn to pardon him and let him live in peace if he returned to Russia.

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

Her wish to be buried there was granted after she left an estate sworn at under £ 40, 000, of which Disraeli received over £ 30, 000.

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She was sworn in on March 11, 2006, extending the Concertación coalition governance for another four years.

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When Attlee died, his estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £ 7, 295, a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure.

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Emanuel was sworn in as Mayor on May 16, 2011.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

This was confirmed in the case of R v Carroll, where the police found new evidence convincingly disproving Carroll's sworn alibi two decades after he had been acquitted of murder charges in the death of Ipswich child Deidre Kennedy, and successfully prosecuted him for perjury.

On 6 December 2006 the Transitional Government came to an end as Joseph Kabila was sworn in as President.

On 20 December, Kabila was sworn in for a second term, promising to invest in infrastructure and public services.

In 2003, Nicholas Liverpool was elected and sworn in as president, succeeding Vernon Shaw.

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