Overview
- The High Constitutional Court swore in Michael Randrianirina after declaring the presidency vacant following Capsat’s power grab.
- Randrianirina rejected a court call for elections within 60 days, keeping the National Assembly but dissolving other institutions and installing a military-led committee with a transitional government for 18 to 24 months of reforms.
- Parliament voted to remove President Andry Rajoelina, who left the country, though his representatives insist he remains in office.
- UN figures cite at least 22 deaths and about 100 injuries since late-September protests driven largely by young people over power cuts, water shortages and economic hardship.
- The UN condemned the takeover, the African Union provisionally suspended Madagascar, and foreign diplomats attended the inauguration ceremony in Antananarivo.