Madagascar politics

Hope you've just had a great week!

We were thinking about what to write on this blog when suddenly, a news report was talking about politics in our country. So, we will be explaining you the Madagascar POLITICAL SYSTEM.

Madagascar is currently defined as what we know as a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. A democratic republic is a country led by a president, in this case Andry Rajoelina who was chosen in January 2019, who is supposed to take all decisions that will affect the country. 

But, under this same title a lot of SHADY COUNTRIES' POLITICIANS hide from the fact that the country that they are leading is actually a dictatorship. If you surf the Web for long enough, in the case you don't live/have lived or know anyone in Madagascar, you can discover that the base of a democratic country, people's voice and opinion, is being manipulated by vote-buying.

In addition to this, there's proof that Madagascar leaders often being disrespectful with their own constitution by not obeying essential laws. There is more to democracy than elections. 

"True democracy requires the rule of law, a free press, and accountability for elected officials, no matter how powerful they may be. Madagascar has none of the above. But far too often, we allow counterfeit democracies like it to pass as the real thing." -Foreign Policy 

Information Sources:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/21/how-fake-democracies-damage-real-ones-madagascar/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/madagascar-first-step-road-democracy

https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/elections-to-test-madagascars-fragile-democracy-17734189

Are Malagasy poor?

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Can you believe that more than the 70% of the population from Madagascar are living under a critical POVERTY situation. To make easier to understand this information we must say that our country, Spain, has a poverty rate of  26.1%, making it the 7^th  poorest country in the European Union.

When we talk about poverty, we are refering to extreme poverty. The one that makes you starve like you have never had and that makes you have really bad days. If we, in our warm home with the heat on, don't have THAT specific dish or food we desire we could paint our lives like sad or even hard when these people, children and adults, are struggling to have their bread and don't even think about having the AC on, as it's a really hot country, or having the same home as us.

We need to keep in mind that Madagascar has about 26 million inhabitants, while Spain has 47 million.

With our collaboration with the NGO Proide we will be able to help build new schools in the poorest parts of this fantastic country.

To finish our weekly entry, we want to say that we need to appreciate what we currently have and understand that, a day in which  what you wanted hasn't happened, doesn't mean it was a bad day.

Is child exploitation a thing in Madagascar?

We've just read about something we suspected but this last research has confirmed it with some astonishing facts.

When we talk about Madagascar we always think about poverty and misery. We've discovered that Madagascar, as a country, lacks any of the rights we consider as essential and normal like the basic rights for children. Such as: 

Leaving aside the legality of the country, 82% of minors are poor, the country has child exploitation and the child marriages are permitted and legal.

We need to talk about prostitution, about illegal street prostitution, which as any other poor country is very easy to detect in the streets. We can comprare Madagascar to the well-known Thailand for the illegal prostitution.

We really need to focus on this whole topic as it could be what, as we talked in the last update.

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