Former Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana, in exile in South Africa, announces his return, scheduled for Saturday on the Big Island. "I return to begin a real dialogue with [the country] is in desperate need," Mr Ravalomanana said at a news conference Thursday in Johannesburg. "Only a real national consensus forged by the Malagasy people through direct discussions in our own country, we can bring democracy and ensure that nobody can ever take power illegally in Madagascar," he added.
The former head of state said he remained "the democratically elected president" of the country. Faced with strong popular protest in 2009, Ravalomanana was forced to surrender powers to a military board, which was immediately transferred to Rajoelina, his main opponent, still in power at the head of a High Authority of transition .
The former president was sentenced in absentia to hard labor for life in August 2010 for the death of thirty demonstrators outside the presidential palace Feb. 7, 2009. Marc Ravalomanana will be arrested on his return home, under his sentence to life imprisonment, warned on Wednesday the Minister of Justice of Madagascar, Christine Razanamahasoa. 
The former head of state said he remained "the democratically elected president" of the country. Faced with strong popular protest in 2009, Ravalomanana was forced to surrender powers to a military board, which was immediately transferred to Rajoelina, his main opponent, still in power at the head of a High Authority of transition .
The former president was sentenced in absentia to hard labor for life in August 2010 for the death of thirty demonstrators outside the presidential palace Feb. 7, 2009. Marc Ravalomanana will be arrested on his return home, under his sentence to life imprisonment, warned on Wednesday the Minister of Justice of Madagascar, Christine Razanamahasoa.
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