Sadly, during his second term in office, he began to abuse his position for personal gain and public opinion turned against him.
The international community was impressed by the president’s resolve to triple the protected areas of the country to around 10%. There followed seven years of impressive economic growth for Madagascar under Ravalomanana’s leadership, accompanied by extensive development such as road building. In the early 2000s, a businessman and former mayor of Antananarivo – Marc Ravalomanana – took over the presidency after achieving a narrow electoral victory, which Ratsiraka initially refused to accept. He imposed his own brand of Christian-Marxism but his socialist policies led to a spectacular collapse of the economy. For most of the next forty years, a former military man named Didier Ratsiraka held tight to the reins of power.
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