Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has sacked all his ministers, his office said, days after he criticized some of their performances as below par.
Rajoelina’s office gave no reason for the dismissals in a statement issued late on Wednesday, August 11.
On Sunday, Rajoelina said the performance of some ministers was unsatisfactory.
“Like in a football team, you have to change when there are failures in government,” he said in comments broadcast on national television. There will be a change and this concerns those who do not carry out the work entrusted to them.”
This also comes days after a senior prosecutor said Madagascar had arrested 21 more suspects, including 12 military personnel, in connection with a plot to kill Rajoelina and topple the government.
Six people, one of them a French citizen, were arrested last month on suspicion of involvement in the plot, after what officials said was a months-long investigation in the Indian Ocean island.
Rajoelina first took power in a March 2009 coup, unseating Marc Ravalomanana. He remained in control at the head of a transitional government until 2014.
In the 2019 elections, Ravalomanana challenged Rajoelina, lost, and said the vote was fraudulent.