Charles Rabemananjara (born June 9, 1947"Le général Charles Rabemananjara, Premier ministre; La surprise continue"
''Madagascar Tribune'', number 5,466, January 22, 2007 .) was

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from 2007 to 2009. He took office on 20 January 2007 at the beginning of the second term of

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Marc Ravalomanana Marc Ravalomanana (; born 12 December 1949) is a Malagasy politician who was the President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009. Born into a farming Merina family in Imerinkasinina, near the capital city of Antananarivo, Ravalomanana first rose to ...

."Madagascar President appoints new Prime Minister"
VOA News, January 20, 2007.

Life and career

Rabemananjara was born in

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

in 1947. During Marc Ravalomanana's first term as president, Rabemananjara became Director of the Military Cabinet of the Presidency in 2004"Charles Rabemananjara, ou la fin d'une tradition", ''Jeune Afrique'', January 28, 2007 . and was then named Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reform on November 28, 2005. After becoming Prime Minister, Rabemananjara remained Interior Minister in the new government, named on January 25, 2007. Following the September 2007 parliamentary election, Ravalomanana appointed a new government, in which Rabemananjara remained in his posts as Prime Minister and Interior Minister, on October 27, 2007. He was additionally assigned the Decentralization portfolio in the 19-member government appointed on April 30, 2008. As Prime Minister, he was an ''

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'' member of the national political bureau of the ruling Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) political party and therefore remained on the political bureau at TIM's May 2008 congress."Bureau politique du TIM; Rajemison écarté"
''Madagascar Tribune'', May 22, 2008 . Rabemananjara is a

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, like Ravalomanana. He was also a

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in the

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References

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