Gabriel Ramanantsoa

Gabriel Ramanantsoa is a Malagasy politician born the April 13rd 1906 with Tananarive and died the May 9th 1979 with Paris. He was Prime Minister then president of the République of Madagascar of 1972 to 1975.

Biography

Member of the ethnicity Merina, and resulting from an aristocratic family tananarivienne, it completes his military studies with the Military Special School of Saint-Cyr military school. Military career in the French Army, it joined the Malagasy army at the time of the independence of Madagascar on June 26th, 1960. He reaches the row of general. The Ramamantsoa general is then quickly named Head of State general major of the armies, posts that it occupies until 1972.

In May 1972, after massive politico-social protests directed against president Tsiranana, he becomes Prime Minister for the country. A few months later, when Philibert Tsiranana yields finally to the popular pressure, Ramanantsoa becomes officially second president de Madagascar, taking his functions the October 11th 1972.

Guided by a rather preserving ideology and very respectful of legality, nothing seemed to predestine it to be carried with the capacity by a popular movement.

It then starts a political period of reconciliation, which will fail.

February 5th, 1975, he resigns in a political context, ethnic and social very tended to the profit of the colonel Richard Ratsimandrava who was hitherto his Minister of Interior Department. ----

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