The Movement for the Progress of Madagascar (MFM - Mpitolona ho an'ny Fandrosoan'i Madagasikara) is a political party in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. The Chairman of the party is

Manandafy Rakotonirina Manandafy Rakotonirina (30 October 1938 - 15 March 2019
.Ratsiraka Ratsiraka is a Malagasy surname. You may be looking for: * Céline Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician, wife of Didier *Didier Ratsiraka (1936–2021), President of Madagascar 1975–1993 and 1997–2002 *Roland Ratsiraka Iarovana Roland Ratsiraka (bo ...

regime and was part of the movement that forced him to give up his power in 1991. It also backed

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 ...

against Ratsiraka in the December 2001 presidential election and helped in persuading him to not accept the first official result but proclaim himself as the winner. The party has converted to liberalism and changed its name. It is now an observer member of the

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, which it joined at the latter's Marrakesh Congress in 2006. Since the 23 September 2007

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it is no longer represented in parliamentResults according to the Haute Cour Constitutionelle

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Mpitolona ho amin'ny fandrosoan'ny Madagasikara
Political parties in Madagascar Liberal International Liberal parties in Africa Political parties established in 1972 1972 establishments in Madagascar {{Liberalparty-stub